Transform your data with coding questions

Study designers can now design coding questions for adverse events, concomitant medications, and subjects' medical history. And site users can now collect data about them by answering these coding questions in forms.

What exactly is a coding question and how does it work?

In a nutshell, a coding question is simply a Text question with a coding-related property specified for it. You use coding questions to collect and map different types of data such as adverse events or concomitant medications, according to the terminology listed in dictionaries in Oracle Central Coding.

Coding questions facilitate medical coding in Oracle Clinical One Platform and improve the way data is collected during a clinical study. For example, a site user might list "splitting headache" as an adverse event that a subject experienced after consuming the investigational product during the study. Using the coding question feature, a term such as "splitting headache" can be encoded as "severe headache" based on Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA). This ensures data consistency and ultimately helps you better analyze the data that is collected in a study.

Note:

One thing to keep in mind is that this feature will be further developed in a future release when the configuration between Oracle Clinical One Platform and Oracle Central Coding is ready. For now, the only task that can be performed in Oracle Clinical One Platform is specifying details for a coding question by study designers.

Already working in a live study?

As a study designer, you can start specifying details for coding questions as soon as the upgrade is complete.

Read more about how this change affects...

• Study designers
  Coding question is a property that study designers can apply to a text question in a form within the study. Applying that coding question property to a question lets them select other details for the question, such as the Dictionary Type (MedDRA or WHODrug), Coding Item Type, and Tag for Central Coding.
• Site users
  When the configuration of this feature is ready, site users can start collecting data from subjects on their adverse events, concomitant medications, or medical history.