Details
- Organisation Name: Cairns Hospital
- HHS: Cairns
- Services Offered: Clinical trials site;Investigator Initiated Trials;Trial Patient Recruitment; Treatment of patients;Completion of study documentation as per ICH GCP and contract
- Website Address: www.health.qld.gov.au/services/cairns-hinterland/cairns_cairns_hosp
- Contact: Mrs Stella Green- Stella.Green@health.qld.gov.au; Donna Kreuter -CairnsCRU@health.qld.gov.au
- Other Affiliated Research Sites: N/A
Location
-16.9124 - 145.76831
Initiating study activities approval
No
Review required
2 weeks
HREC
- HREC Committee Name: Far North Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee
- Meeting frequency: Monthly
- Types of HREC (IRB/ERB/ETHICS) Committee that are used: Central Acting as Local
- Mandate distribution of safety: Yes
- Meeting frequency: Monthly
- Types of HREC (IRB/ERB/ETHICS) Committee that are used: Central Acting as Local
- Mandate distribution of safety: Yes
Facility staffing and training
- Handling Investigational Product: Yes
- Training program for the research staff: Yes
- Include GCP: Yes
- Facility written sop during transportation to satellite site: Yes
- Training program for the research staff: Yes
- Include GCP: Yes
- Facility written sop during transportation to satellite site: Yes
Licenses to receive, store, dispense and return controlled substances
- Required Licenses or Registrations: Yes
- Does the Facility have the ability to handle radio-labelled Investigational Products? Yes
- Does the Facility have the ability to handle radio-labelled Investigational Products? Yes
Equipment
- Investigational Product: Vertical laminar flow hood (chemo/hazardous drugs), Horizontal laminar flow hood (non-hazardous drug preparation)
- Centrifuge: Yes
- Refrigerated Centrifuge: Yes
- Centrifuge: Yes
- Refrigerated Centrifuge: Yes
Patient Records
- Record Archiving: Yes
- EMR/EHR systems: In-house system
- Has your Clinical Trial Site or Service been accredited? Yes
- Audit Type: Internal
- EMR/EHR systems: In-house system
- Has your Clinical Trial Site or Service been accredited? Yes
- Audit Type: Internal
Investigational product storage Capabilities
- Refrigerator (2 to 8 Degrees C): Yes
- Freezer (-20 to -30 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (-70 to -80 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (Liquid Nitrogen -135 Degrees C): No
- Does this equipment have back-up power? Yes
- Does this equipment provide Min/Max Temperature Monitoring? Yes
- Do you have the ability to generate a temperature monitoring log for this equipment? Yes
- Does this equipment have a temperature alarm? Yes
- Do you have an SOP which supports calibration of this equipment? Yes
- Freezer (-20 to -30 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (-70 to -80 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (Liquid Nitrogen -135 Degrees C): No
- Does this equipment have back-up power? Yes
- Does this equipment provide Min/Max Temperature Monitoring? Yes
- Do you have the ability to generate a temperature monitoring log for this equipment? Yes
- Does this equipment have a temperature alarm? Yes
- Do you have an SOP which supports calibration of this equipment? Yes
Specialty Research Area
Acute Kidney Disease
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Cystitis
Dialysis
Nephrology
Overactive Bladder
Peyronie's Disease
Renal Anaemia
Renal Anemia
Renal Failure
Renal Medicine
Urinary Tract Infections
Source Document Types
Paper and Electronic
Average time to start study (in calendar days)
30-60
How long prior to HREC meeting does the application need to be submitted?
2 weeks
Support in-patient admissions
Yes
PK & PD specimens
Yes
Type of Diagnostic Equipment
CT Scan Computerized Tomography Scan
DXA Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry or Bone Densitometry
ECG/EKG Electrocardiogram
FLRO Fluoroscopy
MAMMO Mammography
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
NMED Nuclear medicine e.g. Bone scan
Other
Perfusion CT
PET Positron Emission Tomography Scan
SPECT
Thallium cardiac stress test
Thyroid scan
X-Ray
Patient Population
Adults 18 and onwards
Geriatrics 65 and onwards