About the Central Designer application and users

The Central Designer application provides a collaborative environment for developing clinical studies and addresses the need to significantly increase productivity in the study design process by:

Providing one central environment for study design.
Improving efficiency.
Facilitating reuse.

Supporting internal and external standards.

Central Designer application users

User	Description
Clinical data manager	A user who is involved in the study design process.
Library administrator	A user with library administration privileges for one or more clinical areas.
Central Designer administrator	An IT representative who supports and maintains the application from a technology and infrastructure perspective.
Study design team	Users who implement a study. This team includes several roles such as form designer, rule designer, and study workflow designer.
Medical project manager	A user who works with the CRF designer to create an annotated study protocol, usually based on existing CRFs for the therapeutic area. This user is concerned with the overall set of study questions and logic, not the individual details of form design.
Statistician	A user who interacts with study designers with respect to data collection needs for analysis.
Translator	A user who is responsible for translating text in clinical studies, forms, items, and rule queries to a specified language.