Clinical research in the United States at a crossroads: proposal for a novel public-private partnership to establish a national clinical research enterprise

WF Crowley Jr, L Sherwood, P Salber, D Scheinberg… - Jama, 2004 - jamanetwork.com
The clinical research infrastructure of the United States is currently at a critical crossroads.
To leverage the enormous biomedical research gains made in the past century efficiently, a
drastic need exists to reengineer this system into a coordinated, safe, and more efficient and
effective enterprise. To accomplish this task, clinical research must be transformed from its
current state as a cottage industry to an enterprise-wide health care pipeline whose function
is to bring the novel research from both government and private entities to the US public. We …