薬理と治療

Abstract

Background/Objectives：Nagoya Medical Center datacenter has been supporting more than 80 clinical trials since 2003. Moreover, it has increased the number of supports continuously. Therefore, to establish a system which enables the datacenter to support more clinical trials efficiently is its significant theme. Especially, periodical monitoring report making consumes about 20％ resources out of all datacenter works. This study sets to examine if application of an IT system leads to efficiency after revealing the issues during making reports, as its goal. Methods：At first, we grasped the current conditions and revealed the issues. Next, we considered IT application, established and performed a training program for IT application. We also examined the effectiveness of the training program by using test data. Results：It was found out that data handling with Excel took much work time during periodical monitoring report making. We selected R to shorten the time and established a programming training of R beginner‒oriented specialized for data handling for data managers. To examine the effectiveness, we measured both current work time and work time adopting R by using test data and made comparison between them. Accordingly, we performed a simulation. As a result, we obtained an implication that great resource reduction can be realized by adopting R.