Our site in Belgium was developed to answer the needs of the pharma and medical device industry, looking for a flexible site with therapeutic excellence in Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Pain, Emergency and Perioperative Medicine.
Site Key Features
- Experience in international sponsor and investigator initiated trials
- Top enrolling site out of 20 international sites (109 out of 232 patients)
- Recent FDA inspection (January 2018)
- Start-up, training and managing of several (inter)national sites
- Fast start-up and EC-approval
- Dedicated, motivated and experienced team
Site Location
Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg is located in Genk, a city in the province of Limburg with more than 65,000 inhabitants with 100 different nationalities. The hospital has a large parking facility and is easily accessible via the highway or public transport.
Hospital Facilities
- One of the largest hospitals in the region
- Two locations Sint-Jan (Genk) and Sint-Barbara (Lanaken)
- 811 beds for patient hospitalization
- 250 beds for the outpatient clinic
- 300 physicians and over 3000 professionals
- Training center for residents of different specialisms
- 18 operating rooms
- Two nerve block rooms
- Two post anesthesia care units
- Emergency room
- 18 departments, all equipped with the latest technology
Clinical Trial Unit
- Expertise in Anesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Care,
- Postoperative pain and Orthopedic surgery
- Research office within the hospital
- 145m2
- Meeting facilities
- Monitoring space
- Centrifuge
- Refrigerator with continuous temperature monitoring
- - 20°C freezer with continuous temperature monitoring
- Mobile Research Unit for house visits
- Audited by: CRO, independent clinical consulting company and FDA
- Clinical Trial Pharmacy: ICH-GCP compliant
- Ethics Committee: monthly meetings, fast response
