Details
- Organisation Name: Cairns Hospital
- HHS: Cairns
- Services Offered: Clinical trials site; Investigator Initiated Trials; Satellite Site; 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: Donna Kreuter- CairnsCRU@health.qld.gov.au
- Other Affiliated Research Sites: Townsville
Location
-16.9124 - 145.76831
Initiating study activities approval
Yes
Review required
2 weeks
Site Overview
Cairns Hospital; known as the Cairns Base Hospital between 1932 and 2013; is the largest major hospital in Far North Queensland; Australia. It is located at 165 The Esplanade; Cairns North; Cairns. The hospital offers general service to Cairns' population of about 155;000 and other nearby communities. The building complex has a 667 space multi-storey car park with a pedestrian overpass linking it to the rest of the hospital.Aged care; Alcohol; tobacco and other drug (ATOD) service; Cardiac Health Team (Heart Failure; Cardiac Rehabilitation); Cardiology; Continence advisory service; Diabetes; Emergency medicine; Endocrinology; ENT surgery; Gastroenterology; General medicine; General surgery; Genetic counselling; Geriatrics; Gynaecology; Haematology; Infectious diseases; Intensive care; Medical imaging; Mental health; Neonatal; Neurology; Obstetrics; Oncology; Ophthalmology Oral surgeryOrthopaedics ; Paediatrics; Pain service; Pathology; Plastic corrective surgery Psychiatry; Radiology;Renal medicine; Respiratory; Rheumatology; Sexual health ; Thoracic medicine; Urology; Vascular surgery; Wound management
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? No
- Does the Facility have the ability to handle radio-labelled Investigational Products? No
Equipment
- Investigational Product: Yes
- Centrifuge: Yes
- Refrigerated Centrifuge: No
- Centrifuge: Yes
- Refrigerated Centrifuge: No
Patient Records
- Record Archiving: Yes
- EMR/EHR systems: Yes
- Has your Clinical Trial Site or Service been accredited? Yes
- Audit Type: CRO
- EMR/EHR systems: Yes
- Has your Clinical Trial Site or Service been accredited? Yes
- Audit Type: CRO
Investigational product storage Capabilities
- Refrigerator (2 to 8 Degrees C): Yes
- Freezer (-20 to -30 Degrees C): No
- Investigational Freezer (-70 to -80 Degrees C): No
- Investigational Freezer (Liquid Nitrogen -135 Degrees C): No
- Does this equipment have back-up power? No
- Does this equipment provide Min/Max Temperature Monitoring? No
- Do you have the ability to generate a temperature monitoring log for this equipment? No
- Does this equipment have a temperature alarm? No
- Do you have an SOP which supports calibration of this equipment? No
- Freezer (-20 to -30 Degrees C): No
- Investigational Freezer (-70 to -80 Degrees C): No
- Investigational Freezer (Liquid Nitrogen -135 Degrees C): No
- Does this equipment have back-up power? No
- Does this equipment provide Min/Max Temperature Monitoring? No
- Do you have the ability to generate a temperature monitoring log for this equipment? No
- Does this equipment have a temperature alarm? No
- Do you have an SOP which supports calibration of this equipment? No
Specialty Research Area
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses
Cardiology
Cardiovascular Diseases
Devices
Endocrine System Diseases
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
Hepatology
Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases
Renal
Respiratory and Sleep
Teletrials
Average time to start study (in calendar days)
Greater than 120
Support in-patient admissions
Yes
PK & PD specimens
Yes
Study Phase Capability
Phase II
Phase III
Type of Diagnostic Equipment
CT Scan Computerized Tomography Scan
FLRO Fluoroscopy
MAMMO Mammography
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Other
X-Ray