What steps are taken to minimize any risk to patients resulting from their participation with SCCMS?
• Patients enrolled in clinical studies conducted by Stanford in which telephone triage is provided by Stanford staff. As in the past, the Stanford University Institutional Review Board monitors the safety of the project. • Patients enrolled by partners’ staff and undergo treatment without oversight of the Stanford IRB. Regardless of which scenario obtains, 4 major levels of safety are incorporated into SCCMS: • Education of patients to recognize their own symptoms of importance, and to initiate prompt telephone contact with SCCMS staff at the onset of any symptoms. • Immediate availability of telephone contact with SCCMS staff. • Routine telephone follow-up by SCCMS in response to all telephone contacts initiated by patients. • Immediate availability of patients’ medical records to SCCMS staff.
