OLGA (which stands for "Activity Management Tool" in French) is a digital management platform developed by F-CRIN, the French Clinical Research Infrastructure Network, which was set up in 2012 to improve the performance and attractiveness of clinical research in France. F-CRIN currently represents a community made up of 21 different components - thematic research, investigation and research networks with a national scope - bringing together the equivalent of 1,500 clinical researchers and 400 research centres all around the country and belonging to many different organizations. Faced with the difficulty of gathering uniform collective data that meet the requirements of F-CRIN's supervisory authorities, in 2015 the F-CRIN community decided to develop a specific monitoring and management tool.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, the urgent need for safe and effective vaccines has led to many vaccine trials, implying fast and extensive recruitment of volunteers. In France, until 2020, vaccine clinical research participants were usually recruited locally, through center-based pools of volunteers, and local communication plans. Covireivac is a French public online platform launched on 10/01/2020 that enables national, large-scale recruitment of volunteers for Covid-19 vaccine studies.
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