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May 17, 2008
After a thrashing from the NEJM, the CRO industry responds—politely.
The journal has ‘discovered’ the contract research organization (CRO). And the CRO-sponsor relationship has new risks.
Douglas Peddicord, executive director of trade group ACRO, talks about macro trends shaping the industry and its customers.
The recent New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) article that criticized contract research organizations (CROs) was a roundhouse kick to the gut of that industry. The Oct. 4, 2007 article, written by New York psychiatrist and professor Miriam Shuchman, asserted…
The October 4, 2007, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is not online for free; we can’t link to it. But it contains a discussion of the booming contract research organization (CRO) industry. The CRO industry’s growth…
ClinPage’s recently spent a while picking the brain of Douglas Peddicord, executive director of the Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO). This former clinical psychologist spent 10 years as a lobbyist for various health care provider groups…