Administrative information

Trial registration & Committees

Title Start or STop Anticoagulants Randomised Trial (SoSTART) after spontaneous intracranial haemorrhage
Co-sponsors University of Edinburgh & NHS Lothian ACCORD The Queen’s Medical Research Institute 47 Little France Crescent Edinburgh EH16 4TJ
Funders Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (Res16/A166); Medical Research Council (G1002605), British Heart Fundation (CS/18/2/33719)
Chief investigator Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman
Sponsor number AC16141
EudraCT number 2016-004121-16
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier

NCT03153150

REC number 17/SS/0082
Version number and date  6.0, 23 January 2020

Trial Steering Committe

  • Colin N. Baigent (independent chairperson)

Professor of epidemiology, University of Oxford

  • Rustam Al-Shahi Salman (chief investigator)

Professor of clinical neurology, University of Edinburgh

Honorary consultant neurologist, NHS Lothian

  • Kasia Adamczuk (assistant trial manager)

CCBS, University of Edinburgh

  • Karen Innes (trial manager)

FOCUS and RESTART trial manager, University of Edinburgh

  • Colin Oliver (non-medical ‘lay’ member)

Lay member, Edinburgh

  • Steff Lewis (trial statistician)

Personal chair in medical statistics, University of Edinburgh

  • David E. Newby

BHF Professor of cardiology, University of Edinburgh

  • Gregory Y.H. Lip

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Birmingham, and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

  • Martin S. Dennis

Professor of stroke medicine, University of Edinburgh

  • Adrian Parry-Jones

NIHR Clinician Scientist, University of Manchester

Honorary consultant neurologist, Salford

  • Dan Lasserson

Professor of Ambulatory Care, University of Birmingham

  • Sponsor representative

ACCORD, University of Edinburgh & NHS Lothian

  • Phil M. White
Professor of interventional and diagnostic neuroradiology, University of Newcastle
  • Shannon Amoils (funding representative)
Senior Research Adviser, British Heart Foundation

 

Data Monitoring Committee

  • Dr John Bamford (chairperson)

Consultant neurologist and Clinical Associate Professor, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds

  • Professor Jane Armitage

Professor of Clinical Trials and Epidemiology, CTSU, University of Oxford

  • Professor Jonathan Emberson

Senior statistician, CTSU, University of Oxford

  • Professor Gabriel Rinkel

Professor of neurology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  • Professor Gordon Lowe

Honorary senior research fellow, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow