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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Transl Sci. 2013 Jun 10;6(4):279–285. doi: 10.1111/cts.12073

Table 2.

Characteristics of Contracts Reported. The table shows the number of contracts aggregated across 29 CTSA sites for which time interval data were reported.

Characteristics of Contracts Reported
Milestones Final
Negotiation
(%)		 IRB Approval
(%)		 Full Execution
(%)		 Full Execution
& IRB Approval
(%)
Number of Contracts 467 (100) 427 (100) 454 (100) 454 (100)
Variables
Master Agreement 117 (25) 105 (25) 112 (26) 105 (23)
Previously Negotiated Terms 88 (19) 79 (19) 84 (19) 79 (17)
Multicenter Clinical Trial 370 (79) 333 (78) 355 (78) 333 (73)
Contracts Research Organization
(CRO)		 128 (27) 115 (27) 123 (27) 115 (25)
Investigator Initiated Clinical Trial 53(11) 46 (11) 51(11) 46 (10)