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. 

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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. 

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