The Ambulatory Care Center at Hamad Medical Corporation is dedicated to consistently delivering optimal patient care and upholding the highest standards of practice, ensuring that research studies conducted with its resources adhere to HMC's research policies and procedures.
ACC Hospital Research Advisory Group (HRAG) was established in February 2019 with representatives from each department and Dr. Amr Elhakeem as a chairperson for this group. These are the different units of HRAG.
HRAG Terms of Reference
Responsibilities of the Research Office
1. Research Awareness and Education
Since 2019, we are conducting research training session for physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals. the research department in ACC has been working on building up the concept of research in our facility while maintaining continuous support to the site approval process for all studies in/or including ACC site. Coming December, we will organize the next research training section for ACC researchers.
2. Research Guidance
In ACC, researchers are being encouraged by the chair of research to visit the research office in the 8th floor and to meet with the HRO in order to guide them in their research application and ask for HRO support i.e. in writing a good protocol or assistance them in the initial submission of their research application on ABHATH system, HRO will be supporting researchers, when needed, in sample size calculation and statistical analysis work.
3. Site Approval Process (Site Governance Review Process)
Site approval is the 3rd step of the MRC application approval process after Quality intake review and scientific review. Once the study submission is completed through, research studies at MRC go through multiple levels of review or scrutiny before approval.
Site governance review is the stage wherein the feasibility of a proposed research is validated. The site management coordinator will prepare a study summary listing and highlighting all study-related sites and facilities within the hospital governance checklist and move them along to the Hospital Research Officers. The HRO is responsible for obtaining approvals from the Heads of departments of all study sites and finally the Medical Director. Once approvals are obtained from the Medical Director(s), the completed signed checklist is returned to the site management coordinator at MRC. Once all study sites have been approved and the study feasibility is confirmed the proposal is moved to the next level of review.
Site approval is the 3rd step of the MRC application approval process after Quality intake review and scientific review. Once the study submission is completed through, research studies at MRC go through multiple levels of review or scrutiny before approval.
Site governance review is the stage wherein the feasibility of a proposed research is validated. The site management coordinator will prepare a study summary listing and highlighting all study-related sites and facilities within the hospital governance checklist and move them along to the Hospital Research Officers. The HRO is responsible for obtaining approvals from the Heads of departments of all study sites and finally the Medical Director. Once approvals are obtained from the Medical Director(s), the completed signed checklist is returned to the site management coordinator at MRC. Once all study sites have been approved and the study feasibility is confirmed the proposal is moved to the next level of review.
