Subject Report Functionality

Overview

Subject reports are powerful ways to summarize an individual subject's data.  All fields are accessible in a subject report and can include data within and across Encounters, including medications.  For patient registries, Subject Reports are typically used as a mechanism to generate automated clinic notes.  For research studies, this feature is used to generate event reports (e.g., serious adverse events; SAE).

The first step is to plan the look, layout and functionality of the Report. In terms of the look and layout, most features of a basic word processor are available (e.g., tables, color, images, etc.). It's important to actually build a prototype report in a word processor. This is critical for moving from a generalized, verbal description of a report, to what the report will actually look like and do.


Click here for steps on creating report templates in StudyTRAX v3.47 or later


Functionality

Nearly anything that can be done on the web, can be done in subject reports.  Common functionality includes:

  • Building boiler plate text based on variable values
  • Branding the report (e.g., logos, colors, etc.)
  • Summarizing key components of a patient's encounter(s)
  • Comparing one or more encounters
  • Generating calculations (e.g., % change over time, raw scores to T-scores, etc.)
  • Listing current medications

Examples

Click here to view examples of subject reports.