Standard Operating Procedures

Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

The CTU has developed and is working by a set of standard operating procedures (SOPs). The list of procedures can be seen below:

Researchers collaborating with the CTU can gain access to the SOPs upon request.

  • SOP #1.1 – Developing, approving, and updating SOPs
    • Appendix A – SOP template
    • Appendix B – SOP template instruction
    • Appendix C – SOP training of CTU staff
  • SOP #1.2 – Maintaining the CTU’s Master Index and files/folders for development plan and clinical trial files
  • SOP #1.3 – Contracts
    • Appendix A – Contract template (in English)
  • SOP #2.1 – Clinical trial development plan and protocol template
    • Appendix A – Protocol template
    • Appendix B – Request for protocol evaluation
    • Appendix C – Protocol evaluation form
  • SOP #2.2 – Intervention related documents
    • Appendix A – Content of the investigator’s brochure in a trial on a medicinal product
    • Appendix B – Content of the investigational medicinal product dossier
    • Appendix C – Content of the investigator’s brochure in a trial on a medical device
    • Appendix D – Content of the investigator’s brochure in a trial on in vitro diagnostic medical device
  • SOP #2.3 – Participant information and informed consent
    • Appendix A – Content of participant information and informed consent form (in English)
    • Appendix B – Indhold af patientinformationsmateriale og samtykkeerklæring (in Danish)
    • Appendix C – Participant information and informed consent form template (in Danish)
  • SOP #2.4 – Participant insurance
  • SOP #2.5 – Clinical trial authorisation
    • Appendix A – Schematic of Danish clinical research authorisation procedures
    • Appendix B – Documents required for application for the authorisation of clinical trials to the Regional Ethics Committee
    • Appendix C – Documents required for application for the authorisation of clinical trials to the Danish Medicines Agency
    • Appendix D – Documents required for application for the authorisation of clinical investigations of medical devices to the Danish Medicines Agency
  • SOP #3.1 – Data management
    • Appendix A – Data management plan
    • Appendix B – Case Report Form (CRF) guidelines
  • SOP #3.2 – Randomisation and unblinding in clinical trials
    • Appendix A – Randomisation check list
    • Appendix B – Randomisation specification
    • Appendix C – Paper-based randomisation / emergency randomisation
    • Appendix D – Staff training in telephone-based randomisation and/or emergency randomisation
  • SOP #3.3 – Paper case report forms
  • SOP #3.4 – Electronic case report forms
    • Appendix A – eCRF validation
  • SOP #3.5 – Data Safety
  • SOP #4.1 – Data Monitoring Committee
  • SOP #4.2 – Adjudication Committees
  • SOP #5.1 – Filing and archiving of essential documents
    • Appendix A – Checklist of essential documents
    • Appendix B – Submitting data to the Danish Data Archive Health
  • SOP #5.2 – Monitoring of clinical trials
    • Appendix A – Checklist for pre-trial monitoring visits
    • Appendix B – Chekclist for initiation monitoring visits
    • Appendix C – Checklist for periodic monitoring visits
    • Appendix D – Checklist for closure monitoring/close-out visits
  • SOP #5.3 – Clinical trial amendments
    • Appendix A – Schematic overview of submission of amendments
    • Appendix B – Amendments to clinical trials on medicinal products
  • SOP #5.4 – Adverse events reporting
  • SOP #6.1 – Notification of end of trial
  • SOP #6.2 – Statistical analysis of clinical trials data
  • SOP #6.3 – Clinical trial reports
    • Appendix A – Structure and content of the clinical trial report (outside text)
  • SOP #7.1 – Escalation of problems and handling of scientific misconduct and/or dishonesty
  • SOP #7.2 – Qualification of trial staff
  • SOP #7.3 – Audits and inspection
    • Appendix A – What can be a subject to an audit?
  • SOP #8.1 – IT

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