Raising the Bar for Protocol Development
Protocol Builder® is a cloud-based protocol writing tool that makes it faster and easier to develop investigator-initiated clinical research protocols around IRB and regulatory requirements. TDS Health provides guidance on institutional access, implementation, and training to help your team get started and make effective use of the platform.
Trusted Protocols
Protocol Builder is powered by Biomedical Research Alliance of New York (BRANY), which provides IRB and clinical research services to hospitals and medical schools. It makes protocol writing, collaboration, and review more efficient.
Efficient Results
Protocol Builder streamlines writing with automation, advanced editing tools, and accuracy checks that help reduce avoidable revisions.
Compliant Standards
Expert tips, resources, templates, and relevant instructions promote consistency and help writers address IRB and regulatory requirements. Tools also help identify protocol type and whether an IND/IDE application may be needed.
Collaborative Approach
Users can invite colleagues and supervisors to comment on or revise protocol topics. Revisions can be tracked, compared, and accepted/rejected. Protocol writers can message reviewers directly about specific changes.
Explore Protocol Builder
Streamline protocol development with guided writing, standardized templates, and tools for collaboration and review.
Is Protocol Builder Right for You?
-
Research Investigators
Research Investigators
Protocol Builder Develops Protocols Faster
Whether you are an experienced or new research investigator, doctor, medical resident, or medical student, Protocol Builder can help you develop better protocols in less time with less effort, even if you are new to protocol writing. It’s easy to get started and simple to use. It also enables collaboration and helps avoid multiple rounds of revisions, so you can get your research up and running faster.
-
Research Administrators
Research Administrators
Enforce Protocol Standardization with Templates
Protocol Builder can help you enforce protocol standardization with pre-set templates and a guided experience that includes simple instructions and expert tips. It also allows institutions to add specific guidelines and use their own templates in the application. Plus, it offers features to easily compare, track, and summarize protocol revisions. It can be implemented in less than 30 days, and can also be integrated with your IRB, CTMS, or single sign-on platforms.
-
Research Librarians
Research Librarians
Streamline Protocol Writing
Protocol Builder can be a valuable addition to your resource collection, with guided tools for research, research education, and health science programs. Automated citation and reference features help organize supporting sources, with options to import references from tools such as EndNote, RefWorks, Mendeley, and PubMed.
-
Residency Programs
Residency Programs
Develop Consistent Protocols and Learn As You Go
Protocol Builder not only helps residents develop consistent protocols more easily, it also helps them learn as they go. It offers a guided experience developed by protocol writing experts and can bolster your program’s efforts to meet or exceed ACGME research requirements. In addition, it enables communication and collaboration to help foster mentorship.
Research Investigators
Protocol Builder Develops Protocols Faster
Whether you are an experienced or new research investigator, doctor, medical resident, or medical student, Protocol Builder can help you develop better protocols in less time with less effort, even if you are new to protocol writing. It’s easy to get started and simple to use. It also enables collaboration and helps avoid multiple rounds of revisions, so you can get your research up and running faster.
Research Administrators
Enforce Protocol Standardization with Templates
Protocol Builder can help you enforce protocol standardization with pre-set templates and a guided experience that includes simple instructions and expert tips. It also allows institutions to add specific guidelines and use their own templates in the application. Plus, it offers features to easily compare, track, and summarize protocol revisions. It can be implemented in less than 30 days, and can also be integrated with your IRB, CTMS, or single sign-on platforms.
Research Librarians
Streamline Protocol Writing
Protocol Builder can be a valuable addition to your resource collection, with guided tools for research, research education, and health science programs. Automated citation and reference features help organize supporting sources, with options to import references from tools such as EndNote, RefWorks, Mendeley, and PubMed.
Residency Programs
Develop Consistent Protocols and Learn As You Go
Protocol Builder not only helps residents develop consistent protocols more easily, it also helps them learn as they go. It offers a guided experience developed by protocol writing experts and can bolster your program’s efforts to meet or exceed ACGME research requirements. In addition, it enables communication and collaboration to help foster mentorship.
Why Protocol Builder
Protocol Builder offers easy-to-use features developed by protocol writing and usability experts.
-
Automatic Set Up
Simple & Quick Set-Up
Enter basic information, and appropriate protocol sections are set up automatically based on protocol type. Protocol Builder can help you determine the type of study, as well as whether or not you need an IND or IDE application.
-
Protocol Duplication
Stay Efficient
Duplicate an existing protocol to reuse relevant content and references when developing a new document.
-
Advanced Editing Tools
Better Protocol Building
Insert references, tables, appendices, abbreviations and glossary terms easily as you write. Those sections are then set up automatically at the end of the document.
-
Expert Guidance
Guidance Along the Way
Receive relevant instructions and expert tips as you go through the protocol. You’ll also find sample protocols in the Resource Center that you can use for reference or as a template.
-
Share, Review, Compare Revisions
Collaborate with Peers
Invite others to review and add comments directly into the appropriate sections. Compare revisions made to a particular section. Accept or disregard them.
-
Summary of Changes
Stay Informed of Protocol Updates
Review all recent changes to a protocol and enter a rationale for each one. This information will be used to create a Summary of Changes page, which can be included if a protocol needs to be resubmitted.
-
Reference Management
The Best of Reference Management Integration
Pull in reference management libraries, such as EndNote, RefWorks, Mendeley, and PubMed.
Simple & Quick Set-Up
Enter basic information, and appropriate protocol sections are set up automatically based on protocol type. Protocol Builder can help you determine the type of study, as well as whether or not you need an IND or IDE application.
Stay Efficient
Duplicate an existing protocol to reuse relevant content and references when developing a new document.
Better Protocol Building
Insert references, tables, appendices, abbreviations and glossary terms easily as you write. Those sections are then set up automatically at the end of the document.
Guidance Along the Way
Receive relevant instructions and expert tips as you go through the protocol. You’ll also find sample protocols in the Resource Center that you can use for reference or as a template.
Collaborate with Peers
Invite others to review and add comments directly into the appropriate sections. Compare revisions made to a particular section. Accept or disregard them.
Stay Informed of Protocol Updates
Review all recent changes to a protocol and enter a rationale for each one. This information will be used to create a Summary of Changes page, which can be included if a protocol needs to be resubmitted.
The Best of Reference Management Integration
Pull in reference management libraries, such as EndNote, RefWorks, Mendeley, and PubMed.
Protocol Builder Materials
Explore additional information about Protocol Builder’s writing, collaboration, and review tools.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you don’t get an answer to what you’re looking for below, please reach out to TDS Health. We’ll be happy to answer any questions and schedule a free demo.
Q: Can I see how Protocol Builder works?
Q: How much does it cost?
We offer institutional subscriptions based on approximate users. Contact us to get a formal quote.
Q: I am a subscriber, how do I log in and get trained?
Our investigators really appreciate the step by step guidance, the collaboration tools, and the protocol completeness dashboard features. Our goal is to use Protocol Builder as our protocol writing hub to enhance quality, reduce review time, and improve adherence to federal and IRB regulations.
Clinical Research Navigator Clinical Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN)