To use the MedDRA Browser to search and select MedDRA terms for an
event:
Click Encode associated with the QBE tabs to start the
MedDRA Browser.
The MedDRA Browser dialog box appears.
Note:
The output returned by the
MedDRA Browser for the Patient,
Product and Analysis tabs
of QBE is the Preferred Term (PT). The
Events tab of QBE provides output for multiple
options. You can select and search the required term(s), based on the
Seriousness Criteria.
Enter the first few letters of the SOC, HLGT, HLT, PT, or LLT term in the
respective text box.
To search for the specified word in the entire event term, select
the Full Search check box.
Note:
The Special Category drop-down list displays all the SMQs
that can be selected. The selected SMQ searches across PT and LLT levels
of the MedDRA dictionary.
The Special Category drop-down list is hidden in MedDRA 10.
The MedDRA SMQs drop-down list is hidden in versions lesser than MedDRA
9.
Press Tab.
The MedDRA Browser appears with the search results (for the
specified word in the event terms) in a column below the text box in
which you entered the text string.
Select the required event term from the search results.
The SOC, HLGT,
HLT, PT, and
LLT fields in the MedDRA Browser display the
respective terms for the selected event.
Note that:
Fields highlighted in yellow indicate the selected
hierarchy is the primary SOC path.
Fields highlighted in gray indicate the selected hierarchy
is not the primary SOC path.
Select the SOC, HLGT,
HLT, PT, and
LLT check boxes to populate the corresponding fields
in the QBE form.
Click Add & Close.
The selected codes for the selected event appears in the
respective fields in the QBE form.