SDTMIG 3.2 HODECOD

m Manolya

on March 5, 2014

Hi!

As far as known the labels should be less than 40 characters. Why does HODECOD has a label with 52 characters (Variable Label = Dictionalry-Derived Term for the Healthcare Encounter).

Thanks in advance!

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s Sergiy

on March 6, 2014

Hi Manolya, For my best

Hi Manolya,

For my best knowledge, it's because SDTM IG was created as a set of MS Word documents, prepared by separate teams.

Unfortunately it's not the only error/typo in the recent version of SDTM standard. E.g., this is a list of variables with invalid Labels where length > 40 Chars:

HOTERM

HODECOD

HOSTDY

MHREASND

ISSTRESC

MISTRESC

PCSTRESC

PPSTRESC

PESTRESC

QSSTRESC

FALAT

SRSTRESC

Regards,

Sergiy

m Manolya

on March 10, 2014

Oh...

Hi.

Okay! And how do you handle such labels then? Is it acceptable to shorten it in our way?

s Sergiy

on March 10, 2014

Hi! As a short term solution

Hi!

As a short term solution until a fix of standard from CDISC will be available, I would recommend to use generic labels from SDTM, rather than invalid labels from SDTM IG.

E.g., HODECOD -> "Dictionary Derived Term".

Regards,

Sergiy