View AttachmentSome of you might have gotten the same email.
Spaulding is having an o p e n house. I have only heard of one other clinical trial facility that ever had an o p e n house. It was Clinilabs in NY and that was quite a few years back.
It may be that Spaulding is trying to get a better image. They might have changed some things.
I have no idea. I have never been there but it seems that here in JALR Spaulding is not considered to be one of the better research sties to do studies in.
If Spaulding has bunk beds they have to get rid of them and use regular beds or hospital beds.
Bunk beds are just a horrific bed accommodation for research volunteers. It makes for a very jail-like atmosphere and also, even though most studies recruit people under the age of 45, and few people in their 60s or 70s or older are ever chosen for studies, it is just not safe to have people who are going to be experimented on with medication, climbing up a bunk bed even if he or she is in his or her 20s. And I have stated in this and/or other threads that I once was in a study in which a woman who was in her senior years was given the top bunk of a bunk bed.
Recently a friend told me that it is illegal in certain states for a research facility to put older people on the top of a bunk bed, but I wonder if it is actually a law that actually applies to research sites or if it is just a common rule that is not really a true regulation.
This would make a good thread of its own.
However, it seems counterproductive for certain research sites to have o p e n houses. A lot of the clinics would not want volunteers to know what the accommodations are like if the volunteers are crowded into small rooms.
And as I mentioned I have only heard of one clinical trial site doing it but when I went to that o p e n house, the staff only showed the attendees the nicely-arranged rooms with only two beds in them which were very hotel-like.
When I actually got to do a study there a few years later I was in a room full of beds next to each other and both men and women were put in the same room with only curtain partitions to separate them and there was only one night nurse who seemed to have to oversee more than one room.