The funds provided by industry are to be credited to the patient care category of the GCRC grant. Deliberations are to be documented in the minutes of the Advisory Committee. Investigators who are receiving industry support for projects conducted on the GCRC must be free to publish or distribute data from such studies without restriction. Such rates must be used in all requests and claims for research patient care costs. The institution must submit patient care rate proposals annually to the DHHS Regional Office.
Inpatient utilization is based on midnight census.
They are not ordinarily used to pay for established routine patient medical care or treatment during the course of research. When non-research and Category D patients are admitted to a GCRC, all charges for their care are charged to these patients or to third parties rather than to the grant. These assignments are to be made prospectively for each research project by the Program Director and GCRC Advisory Committee, in consultation with the involved investigator. In all cases, NlH-funded clinical research is first priority. These are research patient days or outpatient visits utilized solely for research purposes.