Royal Adelaide Hospital patients have access to world-class reseach ecosystem through its clinical trials centre
Eligible patients at the Royal Adelaide Hospital could easily join clinical trials at its state-of-the-art centre, with wider access to a range of world-class internationally renowned doctors and researchers from the Adelaide BioMed City.
The Royal Adelaide Hospital Clinical Trials Centre was hub for connecting the hospital’s patients with a huge world-class research ecosystem.
The Central Adelaide Local Health Network clinical trial and research units operating through the centre were devoted to areas including cancer, cardiology (with Queen Elizabeth Hospital), cardiometabolic, orthopaedic/trauma, renal and transplantation, intensive care medicine, gastroenterology and inflammatory bowel disease, gastrointestinal and pancreatic diseases, heamatology, heptology (liver), intensive care unit, infectious diseases, immunology and allergy, memory, neurology movement disorders, neurology and neurosurgery, nuclear medicine, ophthalmology, radiation oncology, respiratory/heart and lung, rheumatology and surgery (with the Queen Elizabeth Hospital).
With Royal Adelaide Hospital part of Adelaide BioMed City, South Australia’s health innovation and translation district, a range of world-class internationally renowned doctors and researchers added to the expertise and ideas available to the trials and patients.
Eligible patients at the Royal Adelaide Hospital could easily join clinical trials at its centre. Starting with a reception room with television, the centre had nine fully equipped and sound-proofed clinic rooms, a patient observation area with six recliner chairs, a television and kitchenette, a large phlebotomy room, sample processing rooms and wet room for processing biohazardous waste and storage room.
State-of-the-art equipment included a stadiometer, x-ray light viewer, bariatric scales, tympanic and infrared digital thermometers, ECG (electrocardiography) machine, AED( automated external defibrillator) device and glucometers.