Data Coordinating Center

"What distinguishes our database from others in the field is its size and scope. It allows us to answer questions quickly that otherwise might take 6 months or a year to research. Most importantly, our database goes beyond the device approval stage and tracks a technology's performance in the real world. Thus we can answer the most important question of all: Are we helping patients."

Roxana Mehran, MD
Director, Clinical Research and Data Coordinating & Analysis Center
Cardiovascular Research Foundation Interventional Cardiologist, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University
Medical Center

The CRF Data Coordinating Center (DCC) provides a full spectrum of clinical trial management services — with particular expertise in designing and executing "first in man" studies, as well as larger scale studies that emphasize high risk patient populations and niche applications. At any given time, our central database is usually tracking the progress of more than 15,000 patients — people who are not only participating in ongoing trials, but also patients we monitor after the fact. It is this tracking of the long-term efficacy of techniques and treatments that makes our central database such a valuable asset to physicians, researchers, and patients.

This ever-growing database has led to extraordinary insights into risks and outcomes for patients after interventional procedures. These insights have been widely disseminated throughout the medical community in more than 1,000 publications of scientific book chapters, medical journal articles and educational abstracts by CRF physicians over the past decade and have provided the impetus for new technological developments in the field.

Data Management and Reporting
Services Available
Project Management
Protocol Development
Investigational Site Initiation
Investigational Site Monitoring
Investigational Site Close-out
Integrated Activities
Statistical Methodology and Analysis