As a Super Abstractor, you can assign a trial to another PA user for processing. The user must be affiliated with your organization.

• If the trial is already checked out by someone else, the system checks it back in, stamps it with the current date and time, and then checks it out to the selected abstractor (again using the current date).
• If the trial is not checked out by someone else, the system checks out the trial to the abstractor based on the abstractor’s role. For example, if the abstractor is a scientific abstractor, the system checks the trial out for scientific abstraction.

In the figure above, a Super Abstractor assigned the trial to an abstractor and made the processing of this trial a High priority (1).

How to Assign Trials to Abstractors

1. Search for the trial you want to assign by following the instructions in Using the Super Abstractor's Dashboard Search Criteria Page.
2. On the Results page, click the NCI Trial Identifier link for the trial you want to assign. The Details page appears.
3. At the bottom of the Details page, next to Assigned to, select the user from the drop-down list.
4. Optionally, enter text in the Trial Processing Comments text box describing the reason for the assignment.
5. Click Save.