Key Modules: Customized Trial Information
“You Name it.”
Although most Clinical Trials share many common characteristics, it is also true that many Clinical Trials hold unique pieces of information.
In order to handle these sets of unique information, while holding on to our concept of creating a generic trial portal solution, we have created what we call ‘Customized records’. You can decide on both its Content, and its Listing layout. As you can link each Custom Set to one or more of your clinical studies, and ‘tag’ its content to different Categories, it is a very versatile tool to communicate information to your clinical sites or participating trial patients.
It is like a container, where you can decide on its
content and its destination. Customized records can also refer to URL’s or email addresses.
Thus they are flexible enough to handle listings of Participating Clinical Sites, local affiliates, refer to detailed treatment strategies, provide an overview of available Clinical Trials, etc.
That’s why we call it ‘You name it”.
Creating a listing of Customized Trial information
There are a number of steps involved in creating and using Custom records.
- create a Custom Set:
- it starts with creating a Custom Set (holding the Custom records). Only persons assigned ‘Documents Administrator’ are allowed to do this.
- link to your Trials:
- once the Custom set is created, you can decide in which of your Clinical Trials you want to use it. Which can be a single Study, multiple Studies or all of your Studies. And it goes without saying that you can have multiple Custom Sets, with each of them being ‘linked’ to one or more of your clinical trials.
- specify its contents:


Example: Adding a new Variable to a Custom Setthat is, set the number of variables, give them a useful column header, and set how wide the column should be in any listing.- enter information:
- you can now start entering data in your newly created Custom Set.
- tagging:
- a last optional step is to assign Categories to your Custom records (we call this ‘tagging’). So if you want to create a listing of say your local affiliates, you can create a Category ‘Country’ and tag each each of your affiliates with the proper value for Country. This would allow you to create separate menu options, one for each Country.
- ready:


Example: The Patient Enrollment listingyour users can now access the information (see example 2).