Can I use an item more than once in a section?

You can use an item only one time in any level of a particular study object hierarchy. For example, you can use the same item in different sections of a form but not twice in the same section of the form.

In a single section, you can use the same item as a child item in two different compound items.

Tip:

  • If you copy an item as a link in different sections on a form, when you produce an RDE, the column names that correspond to each link are appended with a suffix such as _1, _2, and so forth.
  • We recommend that you only reuse an item on multiple instances of the same form (for example, on every Vital Signs form, but not on the Vital Signs form and the Baseline form).
  • If you copy an item as a link, you cannot make a change to a single instance of the item. Each change is applied to all instances.