Negotiating excess treatment costs in a clinical research trial: the good, the bad and the innovative

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Barriers to recovering the excess treatment costs associated with health research from local organisations in the United Kingdom can increase research costs, delay completion of high- quality studies and risk disenfranchising health trusts and patients from participation. The authors demonstrate how the process for recovering excess treatment costs at a local National Health Service (NHS) trust level in a multicentre study was inconsistent and resulted in excess effort and cost to the research budget. An innovative example of how an organisation acting as a broker between commissioners and researchers facilitated a more timely excess treatment cost agreement is highlighted.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Palmer, R. Harrison, M. Cross, E. Enderby, P.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2016 Palmer et al. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Keywords:	Excess treatment costs; Clinical trials; Trial set up
Dates:	Published: 9 February 2016 Accepted: 30 January 2016
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research The University of Sheffield > Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH 12/21/01 THE TAVISTOCK TRUST FOR APHASIA UNSPECIFIED HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND none
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	14 Apr 2016 10:26
Last Modified:	14 Apr 2016 10:26
Published Version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1208-5
Status:	Published
Publisher:	BioMed Central
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1186/s13063-016-1208-5
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:97971

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