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Types of forms
An InForm application-based trial includes the following types of forms:
- CRF—Clinical Record Forms (CRFs) capture the data collected during a patient’s visits to an investigative site. CRFs can occur multiple times within the same visit (repeating forms) and can be associated with other forms (associated forms). The InForm Architect application supports the following types of CRFs:
- A regular form contains data that is specific to the visit in which the form occurs. If the design of your trial requires you to collect the same data for multiple visits, each time the form occurs in a new visit, InForm application users can see and collect only the data for that specific visit.
- A common form contains data that is cumulative from visit to visit. Each time the form occurs in a visit, it displays the data accumulated from all previous visits in which you collected that data, and InForm application users can add to the data in the current visit. Examples of forms that are often implemented as common forms are Concomitant Medication and Adverse Experience forms.
- A dynamic form is generated automatically when patient data satisfies certain criteria that you test by attaching a rule to the relevant data item or items in another form. For example, if you want to collect additional data from a female patient who is pregnant, you can define a dynamic form that appears in the trial only if the response to a question determining whether the patient is pregnant is yes. For information about creating a dynamic form, see Dynamic forms.
- A repeating form occurs multiple times in the same visit. For example, if a protocol calls for multiple draws at intervals after administering a medication, you can capture the repeating data on multiple instances of a repeating form. Two repeating forms can be related in an association, which provides InForm application users with easy navigation between the forms and allows related data from each form to be displayed along with the other form. For information about creating repeating forms, see Repeating forms. For information about associations, see Associations.
- Enrollment—Forms used to capture initial eligibility information about a trial candidate and forms used to capture selection criteria used to determine whether a candidate can be enrolled in a trial are defined in the trial database as enrollment forms.
- Regulatory Documents—Forms used to check the status of a site’s regulatory documents.
- Site Report—Forms used to report on site visits.
You specify the form type when you define form properties.
