Conducting a research study adequately: the key to the success of a good design

Conducción apropiada de un estudio de investigación: la clave para el éxito de un buen diseño

There are many Publications about how to conduce a clinical research; all of them identify the monitoring as a most important action in order to accomplishment the study objectives.
This literature review shows the main ones to have good clinical research development.

Monitor functions include a three main steps during the study develop. 1 During the designing of the clinical research: protocol, to define the study budget, establishing the exclusion and inclusion criteria and acquiring the study subjects, define probability of sampling. 2. During the data collection and management: program the interviewers training, designing the training manual, and data collection forms, monitoring the data collections visiting different investigator centers. 3. During data process and analysis: the monitoring need to check all data collection forms looking for errors and planning the data entry and analysis with the statistics. Also the monitor helps in the preparation of manuscript and data published.