How can I use a dynamic grid section on a form?

A dynamic grid section is a type of repeating section on a form, which contains a pointer to a different repeating form or section, and a set of items from that source repeating form or section. By adding a dynamic grid section, when the study is deployed the site user can select which items from the itemset to include relying on clinical judgment.

For example, in InForm, a site user might want to use one form to collect all of the information about a serious adverse event (SAE) that needs to be submitted to a safety application such as Argus Safety. Consider a scenario in which a subject suffers a heart attack while taking an investigational medication. Then, while in the hospital, the subject is prescribed a blood thinner, and develops a fever. The InForm site user has determined that the data entered about the heart attack, the investigational product the subject was taking, the blood thinner, and the subsequent fever is all related to the SAE heart attack. He wants to submit all of this information to Argus Safety.

To facilitate the collection and transmission of this data, which is entered on multiple forms over the course of multiple visits, you can include a single form in the study design. The form contains dynamic grid sections with all of the items from existing forms that might contain data that the InForm site user wants to send to Argus Safety. For example, a dynamic grid section to collect related adverse events and their onset and end dates, a dynamic grid section to collect concomitant medications, and a dynamic grid section to collect data from lab reports created during the subject's hospital stay. When the study is deployed to InForm, the dynamic grid sections become itemsets in which the site user is presented with the most up-to-date data entered in the items you added to the dynamic grid sections. The site user can select all or some of the data presented in the dynamic grid section to send to Argus Safety.