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Business Scenario

This scenario is an example workflow performed by the study manager and the clinical research associates (CRAs). Your company may follow a different workflow according to its business requirements.

Based on the input from the clinical contract or grant negotiations group, the study manager sets up the standard payment amounts for procedures and tasks that the site performs.

The CRAs set up the payment exceptions for sites where different payments have been negotiated for subject activities. (In some organizations, this task is done by study manager instead of the CRA.)

As the sites carry out the procedures, the CRAs verify successful completion of the procedures and tasks and generate payments for these activities.

Occasionally, the sponsor or CRO (clinical research organization) needs to make an additional payment to a site, a payment which is not directly associated with subject activities. These are ad hoc payments, for example, reimbursement for an unscheduled visit.

NOTE:  As the clinical trial progresses, the sites carry out the subject activities for which they are paid. Typically, site personnel at the sites enter completed dates for subject activities using the Site Portal application. For more information about Siebel Site Portal, see Siebel Life Sciences Portals Guide.


 Siebel Life Sciences Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003