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This Guide to Efficient Trial Management, published by the Trial Manager's Network (UK) and available freely online, is a must for all trial managers or coordinators. This link is for the 45h Edition (2016), and includes information on randomisation, blinding, sample size and power, trial types, regulatory frameworks, and trial planning - as well as practical information such as trial initiation, recruitment and retention, trial closure etc. 

• Section 1 Understanding randomised trials 
• Section 2 National infrastructure 
• Section 3 Regulatory framework for clinical trials 
• Section 4 Trial planning and development
• Section 5 Trial set-up 
• Section 6 During the trial 
• Section 7 Trial closure
• Section 8 Preparation of final reports and publication 
• Section 9 Archiving

The contents can be accessed, printed and downloaded in unaltered form by researchers, with copyright acknowledged, for personal, non-commercial study.