EDGE in Canada
The clinical trials department of Juravinski Cancer Centre (JCC) of Hamilton Health Sciences adopted EDGE in 2011 as the first Canadian Pilot site. The success of EDGE led to enquiries from other cancer research institutes and EDGE was soon selected by Canadian Cancer Clinical Trial’s Network (3CTN). Launched in June 2013, 3CTN set up EDGE centrally and initiated a pilot at the Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre and British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA) sites. Since this, EDGE has been implemented across a number of network sites in great success and is expanding to more Canadian cancer centres.
Alberta Innovates joined the EDGE community in January 2016 and launched an EDGE pilot for provincial research administration in March 2016. Since that time, the Alberta Innovates EDGE Alberta team has evolved with the goal to provide EDGE to support clinical health research in all disease contexts across Alberta with the objective of improving: the quality of clinical health research management, understanding and uptake of best practice, efficiency of the set-up of studies, and enablement of the seamless exchange of information across organisations. Through the use of EDGE as an enabling platform, EDGE Alberta continues to engage, support, and streamline processes within the research community.
The most recent Canadian organisation to join the EDGE system is the University of Saskatchewan located in Saskatoon, within the Saskatchewan province. The Clinical Trial Support Unit use the system where they are working closely with the other Canadian groups in sharing ideas and best practises.
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“I feel by helping more clinical staff use EDGE to reduce their administrative burden, it would leave them more time to focus on helping our cancer patients. In itself, I feel all my work is worthwhile and rewarding.”