In the July 10, 2000 issue of the Washington FAX, they report on a
Clinical Research Roundtable meeting convened by the Institute of Medicine. This
roundtable is apparently an outgrowth of the Clinical Research Summit Project
that held a meeting in Nov 1998. At  that time they identified nine clinical
research issues in a consensus document known as the Graylyn report. Among the
nine issues identified, the first was "There is no agreed-upon definition of
clinical research"
 The recent meeting of the roundtable was an effort to begin to address the
nine items  including a definition of clinical research. The next meeting of the
roundtable is Sept  25-26, 2000. Maybe they will come up with something then.
Kari Hastings

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 From:  Adcock, Constance [SMTP:xxxxxx@STJUDE.ORG]
 Sent:  Wednesday, July 12, 2000 5:08 PM
 To:  xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
 Subject:  Definitions

 Does anyone have the current NIH definitions of "basic research" vs
 "clinical" research?"  I emailed several NIH offices about a week ago
but
 have not received a response from any of them.

 Also, are there standard definitions to differentiate between "grants,"
 "contracts," and "sponsored agreements?"  Do these definitions vary with
the
 institution?  At our institution, grants (no substantial programmatic
 involvement per NIH Grants Policy Statement) are either federal or
 non-profit (though at my former institution, there were also
 industry-sponsored grants), contracts are usually federal, and sponsored
 agreements are usually industry-sponsored or non-profit agencies other
than
 federal.

 These may sound like dumb questions, but I must submit definitions to a
 hospital committee;  some members do not use these terms as household
words
 as we do (and I don't have much time to do it!).

 Thanks for any help anyone can provide.  (I have the NIH Grants Policy
 Statement Definitions but they are slanted only toward NIH and do not
give
 definitions of "contract" and "sponsored agreement.")

 Constance N. Adcock
 Manager, Research Services
 St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
 332 North Lauderdale Street
 Memphis, TN   38105-2794

 Telephone:  (901)495-4473
 FAX:            (901)527-8054
 Email address:  xxxxxx@stjude.org
 <mailto:xxxxxx@stjude.org>

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