The Best Practices Survey and Benchmarks is available to SCRS site members only.  If you are already a member, please login to your account to start the survey. You should be logged in as the primary contact, under the organization account for your site. This can be verified by navigating to the “my account” page and selecting organization. 

Not a member? Please visit Membership to discover the many benefits the SCRS offers you.

Click through the following benchmarks to enter each questionnaire. Once completed, a certificate icon indicating a high or low score will appear for each completed questionnaire, as will a certificate of completion. If your site name is current in our database, this information will auto-populate onto the certificate.

You should be logged in as the primary contact, under the organization account for your site. This can be verified by navigating to the “my account” page and selecting organization. 

Principal Investigator: Qualifications & Oversight

1. Physicians are board certified or appropriately credentialed in the therapeutic area(s) where they are serving as Principal Investigator (PI)

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rarely
  • Never

2. The site has a plan/Standard Operating Procedure and can demonstrate compliance via documentation pertaining to the Principal Investigator’s routine personal oversight (direct supervision) of the trial (including satellite sites), staff and study (i.e. study patient eligibility, sponsor/representative correspondence, safety report, IRB correspondence, etc.).

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rarely
  • Never

3. The site has a plan/Standard Operating Procedure and can demonstrate via documentation pertaining to the communication process which includes an escalation component for the Principal Investigator, study staff and sponsor or their representative and any government agencies.

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rarely
  • Never

4. The site has a plan/Standard Operating Procedure and can demonstrate compliance via documentation pertaining to the PI delegation of responsibilities, authority, and study conduct by all study staff.

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rarely
  • Never

5. The site has a plan/Standard Operating Procedure and can demonstrate compliance via documentation pertaining to the Principal Investigator and study staff reviewing and having proper training on the protocol and creating a working process to identify, mitigate and manage identified risk(s) prior to study implementation.

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rarely
  • Never