About coding setup activities in the Central Designer application

Some data that is collected in a study, such as a description of an adverse event, is free-form text. This item text is called a verbatim. A verbatim is the original reported text that describes the adverse event, disease, drug, or other item to be coded in the Central Coding application. The verbatim text must be converted to consistent terminology that is defined in either industry standard or customer-defined dictionaries for the purposes of statistical analysis. Coding is the process of selecting terms and codes from a dictionary for a given verbatim.

When you design a study in the Central Designer application, you can create items for which an InForm user provides a value—the verbatim text—and you can also create additional related items that are read-only in the InForm application.

A coding map is a study object that contains the necessary information to code an item. By creating a coding map in the Central Designer application, you can populate the values of the read-only fields with codes and terms that are selected in the Central Coding application.

After you deploy a study from the Central Designer application to the InForm application and begin collecting data, you can begin the coding process. All communication between the InForm application and the Central Coding application is initiated from the Central Coding application. The Central Coding application uses the InForm Adapter application to control communication between Central Coding servers and InForm studies.

For more information about the coding process in the Central Coding application, see the Central Coding User Guide.