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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 12.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Med. 2007 Jul;82(7):661–669. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318065be8d

Chart 1. Roles for Electronic Medical Record Users Caring for Clinical Trial Participants and Corresponding Roles for Users Caring for “Standard Care” Patients*.

Clinical Trail Roles Non-Clinical Trail Roles
Principal research investigators Standard care clinicians
Study coordinators Clinical nurses
Study participants Patients
Research-only clinicians N/A
Local IRB N/A
Research subject advocates N/A
Funding sponsors Third-party payers
Research institute/clinical trials office/Office of Sponsored Research HIPAA compliance office/HIPAA Security Office
N/A Emergency care/other clinicians
N/A Non-clinical EMR users
N/A Clinical administrative user
N/A Quality improvement personnel
Research database managers EMR technical managers
Statisticians N/A
*

The same individual user could assume multiple roles, even for a single patient during a single encounter (mixing care scenario).