FINDINGS

Overview
There are three different types of domain classes which includes: interventions, events and findings.  The Findings class captures the observations resulting from planned evaluations to address specific questions such as observations made during a physical examination, laboratory tests, ECG testing, and sets of individual questions listed on questionnaires.  It usually contains variables that are refered to as a test variable such as a test for vital signs.  And then there are other accompanying additional variables.  The transposition of for this "findings" data structure can be applied using the FINDINGS tool which is found as one of the tools from CDISC builder.

FINDINGS Options
The FINDINGS screen allows you to select the data and associated variables and options for the transpose and create your findings data.  The data flow for this tool is shown here.

Source Data

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FINDINGS

Findings
data domain structure

 

The options available for selecting data and options for FINDINGS are:

  • Source Data - This is the location of the dataset that is going to be used to create the Findings domain data.
  • Preview - A preview of the first 100 observations of the data is presented.
  • Test Variables - Variables that captures the test value of a particular findings.
  • Original Source Variables - All the variables found in the source dataset that is selected.
  • Additional Variables - Other variables that is going to be used to create the findings dataset that is not a test variable. 
  • Related Domain - The related CDISC domain.  The list will show the entire findings domain that you can select from.
  • Study Identifier - The name of the study or protocol number.
  • Unique Subject ID Variable - The variable from the source data that contains values for the subject ID.
  • Output - The new dataset that is going to be created which contains the findings domain data.
  • Base Code - This is an optional SAS base code that can be produced to be used to generate the findings domain CDISC data.
  • Save Code - The code saved in this location will contain a macro call capturing all the options that has been selected.  This can therefore be executed independent from this interface as a SAS program.
The options for the findings data structure is very specific for each domain.  It is therefore only possible to define transformation for a specific findings domain from one source data.  If you require including multiple source datasets for one findings domain data structure, you would need to generate the base code and modify the program as a custom program.
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