“We are working with various partners and consortia around the world to quickly evaluate potential treatments for Ebola,” said Laura Merson, who is coordinating the project from the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Viet Nam. “To deliver the most rapid and effective response to the epidemic, a wide network of investigators has agreed to align study outcomes and share results. When planning this collaborative data initiative, CDISC was the global language of choice.”
“CDISC is committed to streamlining medical research to more rapidly deliver results to clinicians and treatments to patients,” said Rebecca Kush, President, CDISC. “We are very pleased that the CDISC data collection and reporting standards are being implemented for this collaborative research, which is so critical to global safety. We are grateful that CDISC experts have been quick to volunteer, contributing their personal time and expertise toward this end.”
CDISC and Oxford University welcome participation from interested parties to assist on this project or other standards for specific disease areas that are being developed through the Coalition for Accelerating Standards and Therapies (CFAST), a partnership between CDISC and C-Path.
ABOUT CDISC CDISC is a 501(c)(3) global non-profit charitable organization, with over 350 supporting member organizations from across the clinical research and healthcare arenas. Through the efforts of volunteers around the globe, CDISC catalyzes productive collaboration to develop consensus-based industry-wide data standards enabling the harmonization of clinical data and streamlining research processes from protocol through analysis and reporting, including the use of electronic health records to facilitate the collection of high quality research data. The CDISC standards and innovations can significantly decrease the time and cost of medical research and improve quality, thus contributing to the faster development of safe and effective medical products and a learning healthcare system. The CDISC Vision is to inform patient care and safety through higher quality medical research.
ABOUT Oxford Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health Tropical Medicine and GlobalHealth is a collection of research groups within the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, who are permanently based in Africa and Asia as well as a growing number of groups in Oxford. Our research ranges from clinical studies to behavioural sciences, with capacity building integral to all of our activities.
The majority of our research is conducted at three Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programmes in Kenya, Thailand and Viet Nam as well as the Centre in Oxford. Tropical Medicine and Global Health also brings together a number of sister groups in Laos, Tanzania, Indonesia and Nepal, and collaborators around the world.
Tackling infectious diseases, which kill many millions of people every year, is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Scientists at the centre are researching solutions to the increasingly urgent problems these diseases cause. See
http://www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk
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