CRC SA has the ability to conduct studies at our own hub site or with a network of private, academic, primary health care clinic, hospital, outpatient, family or specialist physician sites (affiliated site model).
Hub Sites
What is a "hub" site?
A hub site is an institution or group that offers professional clinical services to pharma in the form of the recruitments of significant numbers of patients and the conduct of the clinical trial.
Advantages of the "hub" site approach
- Experienced investigator sites
- Smooth set-up
- Predictable recruitment
- Cost savings
- Fewer sites with larger number of patients
- All sites will recruit
Affiliated Sites
CRC SA’s strength is its ability to facilitate cooperation. As former Professor/Director of Research at the Medical University of Southern Africa, Dr Aspinall is well qualified and experienced to get the involvement of medical staff and numerous credible research centres and investigators in South Africa.
CRC SA has access to and collaborates with governmental and private primary health care clinics situated in urban and rural areas.Also, Pretoria has two academic health centres and CRC SA is collaborating with investigators at both these centres.
Our association with skilled and GCP-trained medical practitioners and specialists provides access to enviable investigator and patient populations.
- Flexible and expanding sites
- Private sites
- Academic sites
- Primary health care clinics
- Hospital and outpatient
- Family physician sites
- Specialist physician sites