Asian Journal Of Social Pharmacy

Abstract: Objective To aim at summarizing the role of hospital pharmacists in clinical drug trials in China against the background that hospital pharmacists have already involved in team-based patient care. Methods The roles and responsibilities of Chinese hospital pharmacists were listed and categorized. Results and Conclusion There has been an upsurge in clinical drug trials in China. Hospital pharmacists play increasingly important roles in all aspects of clinical trials, such as stakeholder liaisons, protocol developers, ethics committee members, research team members, study drug managers, and subject intervention agents. Hospital pharmacists are an integral part of a clinical drug trial multidisciplinary team. Their value is reflected in several pharmacist-led or pharmacist-participating clinical trials as well as the trial project management position within hospitals. Pharmacists should be the designers, researchers, managers and supervisors of clinical drug trials. We expect that all clinical trial projects will include hospital pharmacists in their research teams soon.

Key words: hospital pharmacist, China, clinical drug trial, good clinical practice (GCP)