Frequently Asked Questions

Our experienced team will provide you with all the support essential to the smooth running of the study and answer all your questions. It is not necessary to have previous clinical research experience to be able to participate in a study in collaboration with Syneos Health ™. A pre-selection process for each clinical study will be conducted to assess your interests and needs for the proper conduct of the study.

All researchers are expected to follow the study protocol, regulatory guidelines, and good clinical practice. For more information on the responsibilities of a researcher participating in clinical trials, you can consult the following sources:

• Guidelines of International Council for Harmonisation (ICH)
• Clinical trials.gov
• Health Canada Good Clinical Practices

In order to ensure that the safety of subjects is maintained during a clinical research study, the ethics committee must review the study documents. The protocol, investigator’s brochure, informed consent form, and investigator’s qualifications and experience are reviewed before starting the study. At Syneos Health, our study protocols are reviewed by a central and independent ethics committee. If your place of practice has its own local ethics committee (being linked to your institution), you should normally submit the relevant documents to that committee. It is mandatory to obtain the approval of the ethics committee before beginning any study procedure.

Clinical studies can be carried out in your place of practice or in our clinical units in Quebec. Syneos Health offers you various models of collaboration adapted to the current research protocol.

We pay particular attention to your personal information to ensure its confidentiality. Your personal information, as well as that of your employees and your patients, will be kept confidential, except when disclosure is required by laws and regulations. Outside of Syneos Health, volunteer participants are identified at all times by a code that does not reveal their identity. The collected study data will be kept in a limited access database for a period determined by local regulations. This data may be viewed in confidence by representatives of the study sponsor, various regulatory agencies such as Health Canada and the United States Food and Drugs Agency (FDA), as well as our ethics committee.

Syneos Health encourages the participation of researchers in the publication of scientific articles. Indeed, in some cases, the clinical data of the study could be the subject of publication. It is also sometimes possible that the investigator contributes to these publications with the approval of the sponsor.

Study volunteers may receive compensation for their participation in the study.
The amount of compensation is determined based on study procedures such as time spent in clinical premises, frequency of visits, etc.

The compensation that will be offered will vary depending on your level of involvement in the study procedures, the time invested and the number of patients recruited into the study.