Definitions of terms in Clintrial mappings

To understand how the InForm application handles the transfer of data to a Clintrial database, you should familiarize yourself with the terms in the following table.

Term	Definition
Context panel	A Clintrial panel containing a set of items common to all database tables in a protocol. When the InForm Architect application generates a Clintrial mapping, it supplies a context panel containing the items PATIENTID, VISITID, FORMID, VISITINDEX, and FORMINDEX.
Control path	A sequence of IDs referring to the InForm components that define the physical location of a data point in a trial and in the InForm database. The control path of a data point consists of its patient, visit, visit index, form, section, itemset, itemset index, item, and controls.
DBUID	An ID that uniquely identifies a trial component (for example, an item) in the trial database. The primary key of a target table consists of a sequence of DBUIDs and indexes that correspond to the components of a control path.
Itemset index	A number that indicates a specific instance of an itemset row. If a data point is not in an itemset, its itemset index is 0.
Master-detail relationship	A relationship between two page sections on a trial page, in which each record on one page section (the master page section) can have one or more associated records in the other page section (the detail page section). During data entry, the displayed records in the detail page section are associated with the selected record in the master page section.
Panel	A collection of logically related or clinically related items. A panel is an external representation of Clintrial database tables used to store clinical data.
Panel type	A specification of how the database tables associated with the panel are structured: One record per patient. One record per patient visit. More than one record per patient. More than one record per patient visit. Enrollment panel.
Repeating form index	A number that indicates a specific instance of a repeating form row. If a data point is not in a repeating form, its repeating form index is 0.
Subset item	Name of the item specified as the subset key for subset page sections based on the panel.
Visit index	A number that indicates a specific instance of a repeating visit. If a visit is not repeating, its visit index is 1.