Abstract
Background: Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation (MCRF) is the research division of Marshfield Clinic. MCRF has received 25 years of Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP) funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Grant funds require that each CCOP attain a specified number of credits through new participant enrollment and follow-up each year. The Principal Investigator (PI) and CCOP Administrator are responsible for tracking annual CCOP revenues and expenditures as well as CCOP credits. Revenue and expense details involved in the performance of CCOP clinical trials are difficult to track. Limited information is available regarding the true cost of CCOP clinical trials.
Methods: Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation (MCRF) developed a tracking system utilizing electronic and manual processes, and established individual accounts for each research base within each source of revenue such as the NCI CCOP grant, pass-through additional federal and industry funds, additional private funds. Within each individual account established, expenditures were tracked electronically by various cost categories such as staff salaries and benefits (based on time and effort reports), laboratory sample preparation for send-outs, travel expenses to attend research-base meetings, copying, printing, telephone.
Results: This poster provides general information and graphic depictions of how MCRF tracked CCOP revenues and expenditures from June 1, 2006 through May 31, 2007. Credit information per research-base and total by treatment, cancer control and follow-up credit is also provided. The data indicated that 52% of the expenses were funded by NCI grant funding, 12% from additional funds provided by the research bases, 29% from institutional support, and 7% from other funds donated for oncology research.
Conclusions: To sustain a CCOP, significant financial support by the recipient institution is essential over and above the support of the infrastructure. During 2006–2007, MCRF recorded $4600 in expenses for each goal credit.
- Received September 11, 2008.
