The Best Practices Survey and Benchmarks is available to SCRS site members only.

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.

Site Performance: Study Start-Up, Recruitment & Retention

1. The site has a plan/Standard Operating Procedure and can demonstrate compliance via documentation pertaining to ensuring a written study patient recruitment and retention process/plan is in place for each study prior to the site initiation visit.

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rarely
  • Never

2. The site meets at least 70% of its enrollment goal on each study executed.

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rarely
  • Never

3. The site has a patient retention rate on each study executed of at least 70% (excluding study patients that discontinue due to death or adverse events).

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rarely
  • Never

4. The site obtains the Institutional Review Board (IRB)/Independent Ethics Committee (IEC) decision from an independent IRB/IEC within 30 days and from a local IRB/IEC within 60 days, from the date they receive the regulatory packet.

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rarely
  • Never

5. The site responds to the budget and contract terms within 14 days of receiving the documents.

  • Always
  • Sometimes
  • Rarely
  • Never