Date
of Last Review 3/13/07
SME: Director of Patient Services
It is part of UTHCPC mission to conduct research into the causes and cures of
mental illness.
Research candidates may be requested by the following:
 | Chief resident or short call resident after hours |
| Attending physician |
| Principal investigator/designee |
Research candidates are recruited to UTHCPC by the following:
| Requesting specific kinds of patients from the general UTHCPC admission pool (UTHCPC admit pool, inside UTHCPC) |
| Requesting candidates from the University of Texas Department of Psychiatry (outside of UTHCPC) |
Approval authority from the UTHCPC Admission Pool are the following:
| Chief resident (or short call resident after hours) |
| Attending physician |
| Principal Investigator/designee |
Notification: In both cases, the authorizing physician must notify the registration clinician when s/he approves the proposed patient.
PG4 resident responsibilities
The responsibilities of the chief resident under supervision of the attending physician are as follows:
| Acts as a research triage liaison between the principal investigator and the patient registration clinician for assignment of protocol-related patients |
| Identifies a patient from the UTHCPC Admit Pool or asks the attending physician to request a patient from UT Psychiatry for a UT Admission |
| Assesses appropriateness and evaluates the patient for protocol criteria and contacts the principal investigator or research assistant in charge of the study |
| If the patient meets criteria for admission, contacts the UTHCPC patient registration clinician on duty to admit the patient |
The principal investigator or the research assistant responsibilities are the following:
| Coordinates assessments of the appropriateness of the protocol criteria with the attending physician, Chief resident, or other designated Residents |
| Once the patient is identified as appropriate for the study, sends email to "Research Billing", which notifies all parties of patient's classification change |
The patient registration clinician/designee performs the following duties:
| Receives the email notification from the principal investigator or research assistant and enters the information into the Allegra system as directed |
Contacting registration clinician: Only individuals with approval authority may contact the registration clinician regarding research admissions.
This table indicates how the patient registration clinician assigns research patients to the principal investigator's unit:
WHEN... |
THEN the patient registration clinician ... | ||||||
The patient arrives |
Assigns research patients to a treatment unit | ||||||
A bed is available on the unit |
Assigns the patient to the principal investigator's unit | ||||||
The patient already resides in a bed on another unit |
Reassigns the patient to a bed in the principal investigator's unit as a bed becomes available | ||||||
An open bed on the principal investigator's unit will be available within 30 minutes |
Assigns the patient to the principal investigator's unit Note: The patient remains on existing treatment unit until the bed is available | ||||||
An open bed is not imminent |
Does the following:
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