Create rules to check for missing data

Rule designers can now create rules to easily determine if data is missing from forms and visits.

What are the benefits?

Rules now work as effective data monitors checking if data is missing from forms and raising a query every time a data field is found empty. This allows sponsor users to ensure study data is always complete and the study results are accurate and reliable.

Details for rule designers

You can now create rules to verify collected data and raise a query anytime data in a form or a visit is incomplete. To detect missing data in forms you have to include the appropriate JavaScript expressions that:

• Check for empty data item(s)
• Check data item(s) across forms
• Check data item(s) across visits
• Use logical operators AND, OR, NOT to combine multiple checks
• Check all instances of a repeating form
• Check specific instances of a repeating form

Here's an example of a JavaScript expression that can be used in a form to ensure the seriousness criteria question is always completed when an adverse event is evaluated as serious:

Figure 18-15 A rule example for detecting missing data in a form

To learn more, see Detect missing data.

Already working in a live study?

You can start creating rules to determine if data is missing from forms and visits as soon as the upgrade for this release is complete.