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CLINICAL RESEARCH Title: "Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing clinical research projects." Outsourcing is defined to be "when an organization transfers the ownership of a business process to a supplier. The key to this definition is the aspect of transfer of control."1 In respect to clinical research projects it is defined as being when they are transferred and carried out in other countries mainly the third world. The cost of developing a pharmaceutical product in today's day and age is very expensive and is thought to be in the range of 800 million to 1 billion dollars.2 Outsourcing has seen to be one of the ways in order to minimise the cost but even in many other markets such as in Information Technology, it is not achieved without encountered difficulties.2 Outsourcing is primarily dispersed to the developing world in countries such as India and China. As a similar drug can...

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