database lock

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database lock

A clinical trial term of art for an action taken to prevent further changes to the trial database. A database is locked after review, query resolution and determination that it is ready for analysis.

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At database lock, the sponsor receives a final data set ready for analysis and reporting.

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The CDQC checklist provides HGS data managers with easy access to the real-time status of studies including readiness for database lock, overall progress, backlogged tasks and clean status on a by-subject level.

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However, the responsiveness of the Nextrials team and the efficiencies provided by Prism ensured that the data was clean immediately upon database lock," she said.

Nextrials and Allon Therapeutics Set New Benchmark for Releasing Clinical Trial Results

We experience a tremendous amount of synergy with them on our approach to clinical trials - from how we kick-off a project, to how we develop a therapeutically-focused team, to how we ensure the accuracy and speed of the database lock," stated James T.

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The Partnering with Central Labs, ECG, and Imaging Labs conference is the only conference focused on aligning sponsors and labs globally, and brings small and large sponsors and lab partners together to build more efficient processes from the initial selection process through final database lock.

Pacific Biometrics' Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mario Ehlers to Present at the Partnering with Central Labs, ECG, and Imaging Labs Conference, January 17-19 in Anaheim, CA

Subsequent events include data verification, database lock, preliminary data analysis and review, and the reporting of top-line data.

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3) is utilized to represent hardware resource contention and D pseudoservers to represent the lock-contention delays for the D database locks, which are only visited when there is a lock conflict.