Paper PH-01 The SDTM Programming Toolkit
David A. Scocca · 2012
Data standards such as the Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM) make programmers’ lives simpler but more repetitive. The similarity across studies of SDTM domain structures and relationships presents opportunities for code standardization and re-use. This paper discusses the development and use of tools to simplify the process of creating SDTM data sets, with examples of common tasks and the code to implement those tasks. It also discusses the usefulness of a metadata system and presents a general specification for an interface for accessing metadata. Examples will include mapping study visits, parsing dates, and standardizing test codes.