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title: "Therapeutic areas"
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description: "Create and manage therapeutic areas in clinical trials and link them to protocols and programs for effective study organization."
updated: 2026-06-25T10:21:04Z
published: 2026-06-25T10:21:04Z
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# Therapeutic areas

In clinical trials, the therapeutic area indicates the disease or condition of interest being treated by the investigational [compound](/life-sciences/docs/compound) of interest. For instance, in a clinical program testing the efficacy of a given drug on Parkinson disease, the therapeutic area is Parkinson disease.

Once the [program](/life-sciences/docs/programs) is created, the next step is to create a therapeutic area for the new program. Users can create a new therapeutic area in the **Therapeutic areas** form (**Clinical Supplies Management > Common > Therapeutic areas**). The form presents the following fields:

- **Therapeutic area**
- **Description**

It is possible to use the **Programs** button to open the **Programs by therapeutic area** form to see the list of programs sharing the same therapeutic area. The form is not editable: therapeutics areas can be linked to a protocol via the **Therapeutic areas** button in the [**Programs**](/life-sciences/docs/programs) form.

It is also possible to use the **Protocols** button to open the **Protocols** form filtered by the protocols sharing the same therapeutic area. From this form, it is possible to directly create new protocols for the selected therapeutic area.

A therapeutic area can be linked to one or multiple items by clicking the **Therapeutic areas** button in the **Clinical Supplies Management** tab of the **Released products** form (**Product information management > Products > Released products**). In the **Therapeutic areas** form, users can access the **Items by therapeutic area** form and visualize all the items linked to the selected therapeutic area by clicking the **Items** button.

## Related

- [Compound](/compound.md)
- [Programs](/programs.md)
- [Clinical Supplies Management](/clinical-supplies-management.md)