CONTEXT panel mappings

Each Clintrial protocol has one CONTEXT panel. The items in the CONTEXT panel are attached as columns in a panel’s clinical data tables when the panel is installed. When the InForm Architect application generates a Clintrial mapping, either through autogeneration or when you create a manual mapping definition, it supplies a CONTEXT panel whose items correspond to Clintrial CONTEXT items.

In Clintrial software, you assign CONTEXT item names when you create the context panel for a protocol. For example, the Medika Clinical sample trial has the following CONTEXT panel item names.

CONTEXT panel item name	CONTEXT item
SUBJECT	Subject Item
VISNO	Block Key Item
PAGENO	Page Key Item
VISRPT	Block Repeat Key Item
PAGERPT	Page Repeat Key Item

The CONTEXT panel items created from the mappings generated with the InForm Architect application have the following default names, established by the RefNames of the CONTEXT panel mapping definitions.

CONTEXT panel item name	Corresponding InForm trial object	CONTEXT item
PATNUM	Patient number	Subject Item
VISITID	Visit	Block Key Item
FORMID	Form	Page Key Item
VISITINDEX	Repeating visit index	Block Repeat Key Item
FORMINDEX	Repeating form index	Page Repeat Key Item

Note the following implications of assigning CONTEXT item names:

When you design a trial with the InForm Architect application and synchronize to Clintrial software, the corresponding Clintrial protocol and panels are created automatically using the CONTEXT panel item RefNames assigned in the mappings generated by the InForm Architect application.
When you design a trial in Clintrial software and import a Clintrial protocol to a CIS library, the autogenerated CONTEXT panel mappings preserve the CONTEXT item names assigned in the Design module.
If you are running a hybrid trial or an EDC trial that includes components designed in both InForm Architect application and the Clintrial Design module, and the mappings do not match, data entered with InForm application and data entered with the Clintrial. Enter module is stored in data tables with different column heading names. You must ensure that data selection for your reports takes this into account.

If you want the mappings generated by InForm Architect application and CIS to match, do one of the following:

Ensure that the CONTEXT item names assigned when you create a protocol with the Clintrial Design module match the CONTEXT item names generated by InForm Architect application, as shown above.
In the mapping definitions generated by the InForm Architect application, change the RefNames of context panel items as needed before saving the trial MedML.