North West London Section Primary Care
    Research Management Governance Unit (RMGU)

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    Researchers  
 


Roles and Responsibilities

Researchers

Roles

Researchers are those involved in the research project that interact with participants, their data or tissue, or that test equipment on or issue trial medicines to participants.


Responsibilities

remaining in ongoing communication with the Principal Investigator and taking their agreed role in the team
ensuring that protocols are rigorously followed and no changes are implemented without appropriate agreements.
ensuring that participants understand what is asked of them.
communicating with those responsible for the healthcare of the participant
feeding back results to participants where agreed.
ensuring that the data collected is accurate. Keeping data secure
coding data to ensure that information that identifies participants is kept separately from other data.
disseminating results via the peer-review process.
reporting any adverse events or misconduct.

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