Tag: CDISC

Dive into CDISC Express (5): Generate and Validate SDTM domains and define.xml

Dive into CDISC Express (1): Introductory
Dive into CDISC Express (2): Create a New Study
Dive into CDISC Express (3): Navigate mapping file

Dive into CDISC Express (4): Data manipulation techniques

A more friendly PDF version of these all CDISC Express series is also available in
http://jiangtanghu.com/docs/en/CDISCExpress.pdf

The following tasks, such as generating SDTM domains and define.xml, need just some clicking […]

Dive into CDISC Express (4): Data manipulation techniques

Dive into CDISC Express (1): Introductory
Dive into CDISC Express (2): Create a New Study
Dive into CDISC Express (3): Navigate mapping file

4.3 Data manipulation techniques in CDISC Express
CDISC Express supplies relative rich sets of data manipulation techniques assembling with SAS languages used for data mapping. Following is a not limited listing and I will keep it […]

Dive into CDISC Express (4): Data manipulation techniques

Dive into CDISC Express (1): Introductory
Dive into CDISC Express (2): Create a New Study
Dive into CDISC Express (3): Navigate mapping file

4.3 Data manipulation techniques in CDISC Express
CDISC Express supplies relative rich sets of data manipulation techniques assembling with SAS languages used for data mapping. Following is a not limited listing and I will keep it […]

Dive into CDISC Express (3): Navigate mapping file

Dive into CDISC Express (1): Introductory
Dive into CDISC Express (2): Create a New Study

4. Step 2 of 6: Generate mapping file
Generating template (blank) mapping file only needs pieces of effort by submitting generate_mapping_template.sas. The toughest one is to fill it with mapping rules according to specified study.
4.1 Get the blank template mapping file (generate_mapping_template.sas)
To get […]

Dive into CDISC Express (2): Create a New Study

Dive into CDISC Express (1): Introductory

3. Step 1 of 6: Create a new study (create_new_study.sas)
Open create_new_study.sas in C:\Program Files\CDISC Express\programs\, you can see only one line of a macro call:
%addnewstudy(studyname=my new study);

Just assign a study name to the macro variable, &studyname, e.g, “CLINCAP”:
%addnewstudy(studyname= CLINCAP);

Submit the codes, you can find a folder named “CLINCAP” with the […]

Dive into CDISC Express (1): Introductory

Recently I did for my personal project some research on Clinovo’s open source application, CDISC Express, a SAS application based on Excel framework designed to map clinical data to CDISC SDTM domains automatically. Not perfect yet, but it is easily understandable and practically usable after few hours’ of exploration of user guide. And most important, […]

CDISC Express: A Glance

This weekend I tested an application that can automatically transform clinical data to CDISC SDTM compliant datasets(3.1.1 and 3.1.2), CDISC Express of Clinovo. According to its license statements, you can download it for free and for personal use only.
The core of CDISC Express is an Excel configuration file called Mapping File which defines all the […]

XML and SAS

Last month, I gave a talk, XML: the SAS Approach, in CDISC Interchange China 2010(at the Medical School of Fudan University, Shanghai, 2010-09-15). FDA favors CDISC and HL7, the two XML based standards, and SAS programmers in biopharmaceutical industry  need incorporate the XML technology into their toolboxes. Fortunately, you don’t need to be an XML […]