Investigator Experience

Dr Simpson is board certified in the following areas:

• Internal Medicine
• Pulmonary Medicine
• Sleep Medicine
• Pulmonary/Respiratory Disease
• plethysmography (body box)
• exercise pulmonary testing
• Sleep studies (inpatient and outpatient)

Dr Simpson is up to date on new technologies and treatment. He serves on the medical executive board of a local hospital, serves on various speaker and panel bureaus, is the director of an ICU, and an adjunct professor.

Dr Simpson is well respected in the community and has a strong physician network of specialists to do additional patient testing for bone density, endoscopy, radiology, and other study related procedures.

His patients have been dedicated to him and his practice for over 20 years.

Staff Expertise

Denice Turnbow Respiratory Therapist and coordinator
Chandra Redd MA coordinator
Robert Simpson DO
Doris Tribune Brown DO
and staff

Contact Quality Clinical Research of St. Louis
3533 Dunn Road Suite 210
Florissant MO 63033
314-921-4550
314-218-2719 fax
info@QCRSTL.com

All our staff (coordinators and PI) have extensive training in research and GCP/CFR.

We are able to perform outpatient and inpatient studies. Our practice conducts over 14,000 visits per year. We utilize a robust EMR system that we can query for your type of patient that will qualify for your study. We have a diverse ethnic population with higher than average retention rates in our studies.

We are able to use a central IRB and turn our regulatory and contracts around with 48 hours. We meet or exceed our recruitment goals with a very aggressive multi-dimensional marketing plan tailored to your study.

Ask yourself the following questions about the research investigational sites you are currently using:

Are they cost effective?

• Did they provide you with accurate data to save your company time and money in data resolution?
• Do they query with an internal QA/QI process?
• Is their staff trained in SOP process, GCP guidelines and Code of Federal Regulations, and IRB and protocol requirements?
• Do they meet qualified patient recruitment with proactive strategies that are unique and personally reach referral sources?

Are they well prepared?

• Do they identify potential study candidates and referral services prior to study start?
• Are they prepared for your monitor visits?
• Are they assisting you in accuracy, reliability, and quality through their data?
• Do they have a multi-specialty physician practice with a diverse patient for your study?

Do they meet your timelines?

• Do they provide fast and responsive customer service?
• Do they return your calls promptly?
• Do they speed regulatory IRB submissions and approvals?
• Do they strive to enroll 120% of the patients in 80% of the recruitment period?

Do they have your confidence?

• Do you enjoy working with them and are they respectful of your time and needs?
• Do they accept only studies where they feel they can meet your expectations?
• Do they respect patient and sponsor confidentiality?

Did you get what was promised?

If your last research project was plagued with cost overruns due to incomplete data, insufficient number of subjects, and poorly trained research facilitators, then you owe it to yourself and your company to talk to the thoroughly professional staff at QCR.

Too often what the sponsor wants is not always what the sponsor gets. Too often what you get are excuses, incomplete data, and not the quality of research you expected. When you select Quality Clinical Research, Inc. to conduct your studies you will be able to answer YES to all these important questions.

We do all of this and more because with our company, Quality isn’t just a word, it’s who we really are!

We utilize our own EMR system to locate patients in our database. All our staff (coordinators and PI) have extensive training in research and GCP/CFR. Over 3500 active patients in our database with 50 new patients each month. 9100 patient visits each year.

Recruitment for your studies:
QCR creates an extensive plan to target audience & structure recruitment campaign for your trial. QCR also incorporates a risk management plan with triggers that lead to modification of the recruitment strategy as necessary to achieve goals.

QCR determines – targeted population (where do patients work, play, live)

QCR partners with local media sources to review trends, quantitative & qualitative data on demographics, gender, income, education level, viewing/listening preferences from various sources: Nielson, Scarborough, Arbitron reports. Our demographic research ensures that ads are being placed with the appropriate venues for the targeted population.

QCR has a culturally competent staff that is able to enroll diverse ethnic backgrounds.

QCR’s recruitment plan allows for low cost budget planning for your company and study. Sites who recruit patients from their database and from their close community have proven a higher enrollment and retention rate than traditional funnel efforts from national ad campaigns.

We have determined the methods that have worked in our community. And we will tailor our recruitment plan according to your protocol, inclusion exclusion criteria, and will not take a study we feel we can not meet your contract needs with qualified patients.

We staff our studies so that warm calls occur for referrals or call return and appointments occur within 24 hours of response to advertisements.

Our root cause analysis of our recruitment efforts will drill down to any problem areas if they occur along the cycle of the study and we will implement changes right away.
The Risk management plan has triggers built in that will then lead to different approaches tailored to your study.

QCR constantly measures ongoing success with metrics that provide data on: Media source, total calls, screens & randomizations – which then provide data on our direct cost, # of screens required to yield a randomized patient, % randomized, cost/call & cost/randomization.

We have SOPs that detail the PI and coordinator’s responsibilities in Patient Recruitment.

Patient Demographics

Our facility and office serves our community well.
We have a diverse patient population that can also meet your minority study needs.
QCR has a culturally competent staff that is able to enroll diverse ethnic backgrounds.

Therapeutic Areas

Cardiology/Vascular Diseases
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
Hematology
Immunology/Infectious Diseases
Musculoskeletal
Otolaryngology
Pharmacology/Toxicology
Pulmonary/Respiratory Diseases
Rheumatology