臨床研究コーディネーターの業務を「支援の意味」への転換

The duties of clinical research coordinators （CRCs） have become more diverse and its scope has expanded but remains unclear. Clarifying the content of support from the “meaning of support” perspective for the CRC’s duties was considered useful to recognize what their duties support and perform their duties. This study aimed to extract the CRC’s specific tasks and identify the support they provided from the meaning of support perspective. Three CRCs collected and analyzed the data using the KJ method. Seven categories of CRC support were identified ; “support for researchers,” “support for participants,” “understanding the study protocol,” “sharing and resolving issues of the study protocol,” “negotiations with sponsors,” “support for building roles,” and “good clinical practice compliance.” The results of this study can help CRCs recognize what their duties support and contribute to perceive their duties as support by transforming diverse duties into the meaning of support.