Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Why Companies Must Have Them, and Why They Need Them

Abstract

The Drug Information Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. This educational activity is designated for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the atent oftheir participation in the activily. Disclosure It is Drug Information Association policy that all Jaculty participating in continuing education activities must disclose to the program audience ( I ) any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest related to the content oftheir presentation and (2) discussion ofunlabeled or unapproved uses of drugs or medical devices. Specific areas to be considered in this disclosure include the following: grants/research support. consultang relationships. speakers' bureau participation, significant equity (stock) positions, and sources of honoraria. Janet Cough has disclosed that she has no financial relationships to disclose. Michael Hamrell has disclosed that he has no financial relationships to disclose. Drug Iilfornmtion -J~m d .

Dairy farmer advising in relation to the development of standard operating procedures

“…Standard operating procedures (SOP) are a set of steps that show how a process should be performed (Gough and Hamrell, 2009). When implemented, SOP have the ability to harmonize practices among workers and can be used to train new or existing employees (Barbe et al, 2016;Sischo et al, 2019).…”

Graduate Student Literature Review: Challenges and opportunities for human resource management on dairy farms

“…Veterinarians are trusted advisors for dairy farmers (Stanley-Clarke, 2019;Sumner et al, 2020), and farmers respect their veterinarians (Golding et al, 2019). A trusted advisor has an explicit and implicit level of trust from the decision maker (Strike, 2013), and these individuals are believed to provide the highest quality information (Neu et al, 2011).…”

“…For example, veterinarians view their role in management of their client's farm (i.e., optimizing milk production, decreasing economic costs) as more prominent than perceived by the farmers (Hall and Wapenaar, 2012). Additionally, although farmers appear to trust their veterinarians, they do not feel that their veterinarian has a role in management decisions (e.g., antimicrobial stewardship; Golding et al, 2019) or disease prevention practices (Svensson et al, 2018), or they are unwilling to pay for certain services (Duval et al, 2018). Additionally, although a sample of Alberta, Canada, farmers appeared to be satisfied with veterinary services, they were less satisfied with how veterinarians discussed costs related to procedures (Ritter et al, 2019).…”

Managing Operating Procedures in Distributed Collaborative Projects

“…It is essential for SOPs to be unique; only one version must exist at a given time [12] [14]. It must not be allowed for different researchers to have separate SOPs for similar but slightly different methods.…”