Clinical Research focus (CRfocus) is ICR's peer-reviewed journal, published eleven times a year. CRfocus publishes authoritative articles to keep readers up to date with best practice, and develop their careers. Members of ICR receive CRfocus free of charge; non-members can subscribe for £135 per year.
CRfocus is proud to announce its affiliation with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
In August, we published an extra issue of CRfocus: the CRjobs.org Recruitment Supplement, to help readers find out about the freshest vacancies coming up over the summer.
In this issue, Andrew Smith also reflected about what employers and employees want from each other, what they actually need and whether, in these economically challenging times, they should each be more prepared to compromise...
The July issue of CRfocus has a theme of process modelling, with expert authors explaining how you can use them to make your SOPs more useful as training tools, see the "big picture" where processes or departments interact, and optimise your whole business process.
We also have plenty of survey results to look at this month: Paul Chester and Tania Worth present a survey on team morale and study performance, Samyuktha Ajay and Arun Bhatt look at skill requirements at sites in India, and Arun Acharjya discusses the results of the ICR Research Nurses survey.
Also in this issue, we interview Louise Wood, Head of Innovation and Industray R&D Relations at the Department of Health, about the ongoing changes to the NHS research environment, report on a joint conference between ICR and EMWA on ethical issues in publishing clinical trials, and we take a closer look at the Chartered Scientist designation.
