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Well done to all who assisted with
recruitment. We managed to recruit 516
fully eligible patients, so thank you for
your winning persistence. The days may
be darker and colder and recruitment
may be nished, but we still have lots
to do before Christmas!
Summary
.the Womens Health
Research Unit at QMUL
(trial ofce) are on Twitter!If youre not already
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the Womens Health Research
Unit are involved in and general,current womens health
research
ndings.
Did You Hear?
Over the past month we have beenredistributing supplies to
sites, most sites
now have exchanged supplies. If you realiseyou need dx boxes or
blood kits please letus know so we can arrange supplies to be
sent to you asap. Please contact Maria &
Anthony.
Maria Email:[email protected]
Anthony Email: [email protected]
Supplies
As recruitment has now nished theprimary focus is to complete
data collection
forms and enter the data on to the EMPiRE
database. We will be awarding M&Svouchers to each site as a
thank you forentering the data.
We would like you to have completed data
entry for all patients who have completedfollow up by 19th
December, this is to
ensure we can start data querying and data
cleaning as soon as possible.
Please Note if you are having trouble, try
logging out and back in, try to use a differentbrowser or if you
are...
Database
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Lastly, wed like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas
and New Year from the trial ofce.
Dec 14...a new user, you will need to change your
password before you can sign in.
Any database related problems and
questions should either be directed to the
coordinating midwife for your site or to Sian
Newton who is temporarily coordinating
the study.
Sian Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
Weve given you an EMPiRE Christmas
Crossword to enjoy!
Please continue to regularly send copies of
your EMPiRE diaries to Maria DAmico at
the trial ofce:
Womens Health Research Unit
Centre for Primary Care and Public Health
Blizard Institute
Barts and The London School of Medicineand Dentistry
Yvonne Carter Building
58 Turner Street
London E1 2AB
Participant Diaries
Once we have complete data from a site andit is entered on to
the database, we are able
to begin the close down process for that
site. We kindly ask you all to update and
organise the contents of your investigator
site les as it will make the process a lotquicker and more
efcient. We will arrangea teleconference with each site to go
through the EMPiRE close down checklist
which can be sent to you beforehand, so
that you can prepare your les.
Site Close Down
Some of you are in abundance of
supplies, some are lacking.
The condition being studied
The study title
Epileptic women suffer these
The EMPiRE electronic CRF
You have recruited these To be sent to Maria in the trial ofce
Taking multiple prescripted drugs for
one condition
This obvious element of a RCT A type of AED
A main inclusion criterion for the study
Pregnant women receive support fromhim/her
Type of seizure
This is to be checked via taking EMPiRE
patients blood
Clues
Please also remember to recycle any blankCRFs you may have left
over.
AOB
