Within a study, you can roll up one or more
study products into
immunization treatments, then schedule when those treatments are to be given to members of various cohorts. The treatments and schedule can be specific to a single study folder, or can be standardized and shared across multiple studies within a project.
To define treatments within a study:
- Select (Admin) > Manage Study (or in a vaccine folder, click the Immunizations tab).
- Click Manage Treatments.
Populate Options
You should already have defined Immunogens, Adjuvants, and Challenges on the
Manage Study Products page. This process includes
populating the dropdown menus for various fields also used in defining treatments here.
Your study should also have already defined the
cohorts and
timepoints or visits you plan to use for the vaccine treatment schedule. Note that whether your study is visit- or date-based, the process in setting up the treatment schedule is the same. The exception is that with visits, you have the additional option to change the order in which they appear on your treatment schedule.
Define Treatments
Treatments are defined as some combination of the immunogens, adjuvants, and challenges already defined in your folder. A treatment must have at least one adjuvant or immunogen, but both are not required.
- Click Add new row in the "Treatments" section.
- Enter the Label and Description.
- Click Add new row for the relevant section to add Immunogens, Adjuvants, and/or Challenges to this treatment. Note that if there are no products defined for one of these categories, the category will not be shown.
- Select from the dropdowns listing the products and dose and route information you provided when defining the product.
- Click Save when finished.
You can edit or delete the treatment, and add more at any time by returning to
Manage Treatments.
Define Treatment Schedule
Once you've defined the contents of each treatment, you can set the schedule for when treatments will be given and to whom. Participant groups, or cohorts may already be defined in your study or you can define cohorts directly from this page by giving them a name and participant count.
- The initial treatment schedule is prepopulated with the cohorts defined in your study.
- To add additional cohorts, click Add new row and enter the name and count.
The initial treatment schedule does not prepopulate with the visits defined in the study. Only visits involving treatments need to be added to this schedule.
Note that your study can either be visit-based or date-based. The steps are the same but buttons and titles will use either "visit" or "timepoint" (as shown here). The one difference is that you have the option to change the display order of visits in the treatment schedule table by clicking
change visit order.
CAVD Folder Treatment Schedule
In a CAVD folder, study products are not rolled into a "Treatments" table prior to defining the
Treatment Schedule. Instead, after adding cohort rows and visit (or timepoint) columns to the treatment schedule, the user clicks an entry field to directly enter the components of the immunization treatment given to that cohort at that time. The popup lists all defined products with checkboxes to select one or more components.
Click
OK to save the treatment, then
Save to save the treatment schedule. The schedule will show a concatenated list of product names; hover over the "?" to see details including dose and route information for each product included.
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