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Data Cleaning Using ODM. CDISC ESUG Meeting. Andrew Newbigging Vice President, Integrations Development 13 th July 2010. Medidata Solutions, Inc. Proprietary - Medidata and Authorized Clients Only.
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Data Cleaning Using ODM CDISC ESUG Meeting Andrew Newbigging Vice President, Integrations Development 13th July 2010 Medidata Solutions, Inc. Proprietary - Medidata and Authorized Clients Only. This document contains proprietary information that shall be distributed, routed or made available only within Medidata, except with written permission of Medidata.
Agenda ODM 1.3 - Features Introduction ODM 1.3 - Limitations Vendor Extensions Future Plans Questions
Introduction • Medidata uses ODM to integrate eClinical systems • Metadata driven integrations support “define-once” strategy, or DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) • ODM provides good support for form and question definitions • How much of the data validation specification can be included in ODM? Design Capture Analyze Import /ExportMetadata ImportClinical Data SDTM CDASH Transform &ExtractDatasets Export(S)AE CaseData ODM ExportOperationalData ODM ODM E2B eDiary Metadata Library IVRS Safety SAS CTMS LIMS AnalysisWarehouse Payment
Agenda ODM 1.3 - Features Introduction ODM 1.3 - Limitations Vendor Extensions Future Plans Questions
ODM 1.3 – Features - DataType • ODM 1.3 introduced typed data definitions: • So we know that this data is not valid: • Data values can also be checked against DataType attribute (ODM 1.2 and 1.3):
ODM 1.3 – Features - Length Constrain acceptable size of text, string, integer and float data items:
ODM 1.3 – Features - CodeList Constrains data values to a specified list:
ODM 1.3 – Features - RangeCheck Specification of simple uni-variate checks
Agenda ODM 1.3 - Features Introduction ODM 1.3 - Limitations Vendor Extensions Future Plans Questions
ODM 1.3 - Limitations • FormalExpression contains free text – no specification of content • Different systems use widely varying implementations (SQL, Javascript, VBScript, C#, SAS procedures, etc) • Difficult to create complex, multi-variate checks that are system-independent and transferrable
Agenda ODM 1.3 - Features Introduction ODM 1.3 - Limitations Vendor Extensions Future Plans Questions
Vendor Extensions • ‘Recommended for … information that cannot be expressed conveniently in the ODM model’ • Medidata have created vendor extensions to completely represent an EDC study in ODM • Edit checks and derivations are expressed in an XML vendor extension structure
Agenda ODM 1.3 - Features Introduction ODM 1.3 - Limitations Vendor Extensions Future Plans Questions
Future Plans Medidata already makes extensive use of automated application software testing using Cucumber: ‘Cucumber is a tool that can execute plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests. The language that Cucumber understands is called Gherkin. ‘ http://cukes.info/
Agenda ODM 1.3 - Features Introduction ODM 1.3 - Limitations Vendor Extensions Future Plans Questions