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The "Medications" feature is often used with patient registries and/or to collect concomitant medications for clinical trials. It combines simply data entry with sophisticated analysis of medication usage (see Medication Feature image below). From the perspective of data entry staff, they merely select a medication from a list and enter the begin date, dose, times pre day, route of administration, indication, end-date (if applicable), indication, and any notes. - end date
- Data Entry Staff
- Able to enter medication information
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From a data analysis perspective, medication usage is automatically looked-up and connected with visit dates (e.g., date of a clinic visit, planned protocol encounter such as baseline, week 1, etc.) in datasets! Investigators can choose to include in their dataset 1) the dose of a specific medication, 2) the dose equivalence across multiple medications, and 3) whether a patient has ever been exposed to a single or a whole list of medications (see image below).
Integration of Medications In Data Sets
