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Enabling Lower Carbon Clinical Trials (CiCT) Project

 

Publications

Griffiths J, Fox L, Williamson PR on behalf of the Low Carbon Clinical Trials Group. Quantifying the carbon footprint of clinical trials: guidance development and case studies. BMJ Open 2024;14:e075755. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075755. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1/e075755

Griffiths J, Adshead F, Al-Shahi Salman R, Anderson C, Bedson E, Bliss J, Boshoff A, Chen X, Cranley D, Doran P, Dunne F, Gamble C, Gillies K, Hood K, Kavanagh C, Malone J, McGregor N, McNamara C, Midha E, Moore K, Murphy L, Newman C, O'Reilly S, Perkins A, Pett S, Sydes M, Whitty L, You F, Fox L, Williamson PWhat is the carbon footprint of academic clinical trials? A study of hotspots in 10 trials. BMJ Open 2024 Oct 16;14(10):e088600. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39414270/

Understanding current thinking around carbon emission impact assessment and clinical trials regulation. A report produced as part of the work of the MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership Greener Trials Group. Authors Gabrielle Samuel, Paula Williamson, Lisa Fox, Matthew Graham. October 2024.

Carbon footprinting Guidance and data collection tools

Please find below the most up to date versions of our carbon footprinting guidance described in the publications above. Here you can find the detailed guidance, the data collection questionnaire and the data collation quick guide and worksheet.

  • Latest version of the “Detailed Guidance and method to calculate the carbon footprint of a clinical trial”

Detailed Guidance and Methods.docx

  • Latest version of the “Data collation quick guide and worksheet

Data Collation Worksheet.docx

  • Latest version of the “Data collection questionnaire”

Data Collection Questionnaire.docx 

 

Training

  • Join us at a monthly drop-in clinic to learn how to carbon footprint clinical trial activities, to help inform lower carbon trial design. Full details of upcoming sessions are in the flyer below.

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  • Coming soon: webinar on carbon footprinting clinical trials.

 

  • A worked example of clinical trial carbon footprinting. Have a go at footprinting a trial using the Footprint Trial protocol. Use the protocol below, including a data collection questionnaire to collate all the activity data in the footprint trial. You can then perform the associated carbon footprinting calculations using the Data Collation Quick Guide.

 

Footprint Trial Protocol.docx

Data Collation Quick Guide.docx

 

A completed data collection questionnaire and data collation quick guide are included below, you can use this to check your answers. If you’d like to join a drop in clinic and access training in the use and application of the guidance, please contact cict-icrctsu@icr.ac.uk. The clinics are run monthly and open to all.

Data Collection Questionnaire.docx

Data Collation Quick Guide.docx

 

Funding awarded to the TMRP Greener Trials group

  • MRC NIHR TMRP Funding award for patient animated video and drop in clinics
  • UKRI Innovate UK Regulatory Science and Innovation Networks

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