Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences

Clinical Trials

PARTICIPATING STUDIES AND CLINICAL TRIALS

What is an ECG Core Lab and why is it needed?

ECGs are often taken to confirm inclusion criteria for clinical trials, to determine end points, to assess any long term risks and provide a form of non-invasive assessment that is vital to many clinical trials. Centralisation and interpretation, storage and retrieval of ECGs has several advantages:

 

Centralisation of ECG reporting in a core lab permits secure central interpretation, storage and retrieval of ECGs used in clinical trials. Centralisation also helps to make communication a simpler, speedier and more efficient process.

 

Accuracy of results can be improved. Studies have shown that visual analysis of ECGs by physicians or other qualified individuals can result in wide variations in interpretation and can lead to false positive and negative results. Computerised interpretation and restriction of visual interpretation to a small number of highly trained individuals adhering to strict operating procedures, reduces these types of errors and increases reproducibility and accuracy of results.

 

Retrieval of data. Centrally located databases provide a secure and easily managed source for ECG storage and retrieval.

 

Excellence of ECG processing ensures that clinical trial data is processed to the highest possible standards. Our ECG Core Lab Clinical Trials Group and the assosciated Software Development Group has been assessed annually since August 2003 and registered in accordance with the ISO 9001 (2008 revision) quality assurance standard (Moody International Certification Ltd is a UKAS accredited body No 0ISO 9001 Quality Management Logo14).

 


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a) CLINICAL TRIALS / EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES


b) COLLABORATIVE WORK

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