Abstract: A method for automatically tracking compliance in a clinical trials process involving one or more operations comprising selecting a container; associating an identifier with the container, the identifier having a unique signature data item thereon; reading the unique signature data item to a relational database; performing a first operation relating to the container; checking the performance of the first operation against a compliance standard; following the successful completion of the first operation, writing an associated compliance data item to the relational database; optionally performing one or more further operations relating to the container; and following the successful completion of each optional further operation or a package thereof, writing an associated compliance data item to the database.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 21, 2002
Date of Patent:
April 24, 2012
Assignee:
SmithKline Beeacham P.L.C.
Inventors:
Paul Laurence Carter, Stephen Day, Peter Graham Evans, Lesley Julia George