Budgeting for Pharmacy Services
Each study varies in its requirements and its complexity. Please contact Investigational Pharmacy to discuss your protocol's need and for assistance with your budget preparation.
Requesting Services
Any investigator conducting clinical trials utilizing investigational products or any medication supplied to this institution from a sponsor must contact the Nebraska Medicine Investigational Drug Service.
Protocol Assistance and Design
- Participate in site initiation visits, start-up meetings, routine monitoring visits, audits, closeouts, etc.
- Provide pharmaceutical expertise to investigators, coordinators and other participating personnel in regards to trial procedures
- Blinding
- Randomization
- Compounding
- IV Admixture
- Drug Procurement
- Study Logistics
Regulatory
- Monitors state and FDA regulations, Nebraska Medicine Policies and Procedures, and Cooperative Group Regulations
Inventory Control
- Ordering and receiving medications
- Storage and security
- Documented Temperature Control
- Return/Destruction compliance
Documentation
- Computerized order entry
- Sponsor Logbooks
- IVRS Systems
Dispensing
- Inpatient (Hospital Units, Emergency Room, Catheterization Laboratory)
- Outpatient
- Outpatient Clinic Pharmacy
- Lied/Village Point/Bellevue Outpatient Infusions Clinic
- Internal Medicine Infusion Clinic
- Clinical Research Center
Drug Information
- Provide medication administration guidelines for nursing
- Provide written guidelines to pharmacy personnel
- Provide staff protocol information and education