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Glossary
CAP: Clinical Associate
Physician Program
CCI: BIDMC Committee on
Clinical Investigation
CDMAS: Computerized Database
Management and Analysis System
Clinical Investigation:
Medical research devoted solely to studying human subjects.
Co-PI: Co-Investigator:
CTU: Clinical Trials Unit.
GCRC: General Clinical
Research Center.
Intercurrent Illness: An
illness of a study subject that is unrelated to the research, and
expected to be of a short duration.
IRB: BIDMC Institutional
Review Board.
JCAHO: Joint Commission on
the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
NCRR: National Center for
Research Resources.
NIH: National Institutes of
Health.
PI: Primary Investigator:
Protocol: A research study.
SAC: GCRC Scientific
Advisory Committee
Study Coordinator: The GCRC
nurse assigned to be the primary liaison with the PI for each protocol.
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