MHFC Services

MHFC offers quality results in a timely efficient, cost effective manner. We provide a centralized contact to 11 investigative sites for timely study placement and oversight.

Centralized Trial Management can be customized to your needs and include the following services:

Protocol development
Site Selection including determining site interest and a quick turnaround for site surveys
Contract/Budget Negotiation
Centralized site reimbursement
Data Management/Case Report Form Development
Regulatory Support including consent development, regulatory document collection
Trial monitoring and meeting preparations
Medical writing including publications

Master agreements are in place with our sites thus streamlining the contractual process. Our master agreement confidentiality clause for protocol review allows for only one confidentiality agreement to be signed for protocol feasibility review. Centralized contracts, budgets, and payments all simplify the process for sponsors.

We can provide a framework of support for discussions among our sites and sponsors/CROs.

MHFC can assist you in all stages of trial conduction from protocol development, trial management, data analysis to publication.

MHFC sites

Our investigators are nationally and internationally known thought leaders with decades of collective experience in many areas of heart failure research.
Each site has a dedicated research staff with multiple years of research experience including ICH/GCP guidelines and several staff are certified coordinators.
Sites are both academic and private settings with access to many patients within the Minneapolis-St. Paul community ensuring a diverse patient population. Site demographics are available.
Each site has secured ambient, refrigerated study drug storage and secured medical records/CRF storage. In addition, sites have access to laboratory facilities with freezer and centrifuge capabilities.

Heart Failure research experience includes:

Phase 2-4 pharmacological research
Post-Marketing device trials
Investigator-initiated research
Outcome trials
Feasibility trials