What EBIC can offer to pharmaceutical companies and research organizations:

• Assist and advise on protocol development.

• Provide members, with sponsor, for study steering committee, safety committee and other sub committees.

• Suggest principal investigator(s).

• Identify and evaluate potential sites.

• Center inspection, training, quality control.

• Monitoring progress of study by collection and analysis of screening logs in EBIC coordinating center. Liaison with centers/newsletter. Assist in arranging investigators meetings.

• Deal with medical inquiries.

• Review of data for quality, consistency, credibility.

• Central review of CT scans and outcome assessment.

• Analysis and interpretation of results of study. Review of study report.

• Prepare papers for publication.