Overview
StudyTRAX has a built-in "Medications" feature design to tightly integrate data entry of subject medication usage with datasets, including dose equivalency scales. There is a central list of Medications that is maintained by the "Medications" user role. The central list of medications may involve just a few, targeted medications or thousands of medications (e.g., the entire PDR).
How It Works
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. 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, end-date (if applicable), indication, and any notes. 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
