Creating Accounts and Contacts for Clinical Trials

An account is the institution from which you manage clinical trials. Typically, it is the facility where the investigators conduct the trials. You can track as accounts IRBs (institutional review boards), central laboratories, CROs (clinical research organizations), and other subcontractors. You can associate multiple sites with an account, and an account can carry out multiple protocols.

A contact is a person working at a clinical site. Contacts include investigators, typically medical professionals who are also researchers, and site coordinators, who might be the practicing nurses administering the treatment plan according to the clinical protocol.

The Siebel administrator generally bulk loads data on accounts and contacts, but end users can create and modify these records as needed. For information about importing data into your Siebel Life Sciences database, see Siebel Life Sciences Guide.

This task is a step in Process of Managing Clinical Trials.