Details
- Organisation Name: Princess Alexandra Hospital
- HHS: Metro South
- Services Offered: Clinical trials site; Investigator Initiated Trials; Trial Patient Recruitment; Treatment of patients; Completion of study documentation as per ICH GCP and contract
- Website Address: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/princess-alexandra-hospital
- Contact: [email protected]
- Other Affiliated Research Sites: N/A
Location
-27.49737 - 153.03352
Initiating study activities approval
No
Review required
2 weeks
Site Overview
Princess Alexandra Hospital is a tertiary health care centre; providing care in most major adult specialties. One of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. Provide acute medical; surgical; mental health; cancer; rehabilitation and allied health services.Nationally recognised for expertise in trauma management and a major transplantation centre for livers; kidneys; bone; cartilage; and corneas.Responsibility for a number of state-wide services including:Acquired Brain Injury Outreach ServiceQueensland Spinal Cord Injury ServiceQueensland Liver Transplant ServiceQueensland Eye BankQueensland Bone Bank.Aeromedical retrieval service which transports patients to hospital via helicopter or fixed wing aircraft; a road accident response service and a major trauma retrieval service managed by our Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit.
HREC
- HREC Committee Name: Metro South HREC
- Meeting frequency: Monthly
- Types of HREC (IRB/ERB/ETHICS) Committee that are used: Central Acting as Local
- Mandate distribution of safety: Yes
- Meeting frequency: Monthly
- Types of HREC (IRB/ERB/ETHICS) Committee that are used: Central Acting as Local
- Mandate distribution of safety: Yes
Facility staffing and training
- Handling Investigational Product: Yes
- Training program for the research staff: Yes
- Include GCP: Yes
- Facility written sop during transportation to satellite site: Yes
- Training program for the research staff: Yes
- Include GCP: Yes
- Facility written sop during transportation to satellite site: Yes
Licenses to receive, store, dispense and return controlled substances
- Required Licenses or Registrations: Yes
- Does the Facility have the ability to handle radio-labelled Investigational Products? N/A
- Does the Facility have the ability to handle radio-labelled Investigational Products? N/A
Equipment
- Investigational Product: Horizontal laminar flow hood (non-hazardous drug preparation)
- Centrifuge: Yes
- Refrigerated Centrifuge: Yes
- Centrifuge: Yes
- Refrigerated Centrifuge: Yes
Patient Records
- Record Archiving: Yes
- EMR/EHR systems: In-house system
- Has your Clinical Trial Site or Service been accredited? Yes
- Audit Type: Sponsor
- EMR/EHR systems: In-house system
- Has your Clinical Trial Site or Service been accredited? Yes
- Audit Type: Sponsor
Investigational product storage Capabilities
- Refrigerator (2 to 8 Degrees C): Yes
- Freezer (-20 to -30 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (-70 to -80 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (Liquid Nitrogen -135 Degrees C): Yes
- Does this equipment have back-up power? Yes
- Does this equipment provide Min/Max Temperature Monitoring? Yes
- Do you have the ability to generate a temperature monitoring log for this equipment? Yes
- Does this equipment have a temperature alarm? Yes
- Do you have an SOP which supports calibration of this equipment? Yes
- Freezer (-20 to -30 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (-70 to -80 Degrees C): Yes
- Investigational Freezer (Liquid Nitrogen -135 Degrees C): Yes
- Does this equipment have back-up power? Yes
- Does this equipment provide Min/Max Temperature Monitoring? Yes
- Do you have the ability to generate a temperature monitoring log for this equipment? Yes
- Does this equipment have a temperature alarm? Yes
- Do you have an SOP which supports calibration of this equipment? Yes
Specialty Research Area
Bacteraemia
Bacterial Infections and Mycoses
Cirrhosis
Cytomegalovirus
Hepatitis A
Herpes Simplex
Herpes Zoster
HIV – AIDS
HMT1
Human Papilloma Virus
MRSA
Occupational Diseases
Osteomyelitis
Parasitic Diseases
PHN
Seasonal Flu
Surgical Site Infections
Study Types
Academic
Industry
Investigator
Average time to start study (in calendar days)
30-60
How long prior to HREC meeting does the application need to be submitted?
2 weeks
Does the HREC committee require contract /budget approval prior to release final approval documents?
No
Support in-patient admissions
Yes
PK & PD specimens
Yes
Study Phase Capability
Phase II
Phase III
Type of Diagnostic Equipment
CT Scan Computerized Tomography Scan
DXA Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry or Bone Densitometry
ECG/EKG Electrocardiogram
FLRO Fluoroscopy
MAMMO Mammography
MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging
NMED Nuclear medicine e.g. Bone scan
Other
Perfusion CT
PET Positron Emission Tomography Scan
SPECT
Thallium cardiac stress test
Thyroid scan
X-Ray
Patient Population
Adolescents/Adults 16 and onwards
Adults 18 and onwards
Geriatrics 65 and onwards