Table 1 Resources for integrating Quality Assurance Best Practices into non-regulated research

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TDR Handbook: Quality Practices in Basic Biomedical Research, (QPBR)

‘Provide institutions and researchers with the necessary tools for the implementation and monitoring of quality practices in their research, thus promoting the credibility and acceptability of their work. The handbook highlights non-regulatory practices that can be easily institutionalized with very little extra expense’.

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RQA: Quality in Research Guidelines for working in non-regulated research

‘to facilitate the stepwise and straightforward development of a value-adding Quality System into any research institute.

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Michelson Prize & Grants Research Quality Assurance Toolkit

A basic QA toolkit designed to facilitate best practices in research and data management. Tools and templates that facilitate the development of effective records (personnel, equipment, methods, supplies/reagents, and data) throughout the data life cycle are provided.

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RQA Quality Systems Workbook [34]

‘to provide tools and a practical approach to develop a Quality System that works for the user’

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ASQ TRI-2012: Best Quality Practices for Biomedical Research in Drug Development

‘This technical report identifies important quality management system elements for non-regulated biomedical research in drug development in order to ensure credibility of biomedical research results.’

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Quality assurance mechanisms for the unregulated research environment.

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Quality: an old solution to new discovery dilemmas.

Implementation of Good Research Practices for the early phase, non-regulated drug discovery research environment.

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A novel audit model for assessing quality in non-regulated research