Adding Arms - Include v4.4

You can add one or more arms to a trial according to the trial’s design details.

How to Add Arms

1. Search for the trial of interest. For instructions, refer to Searching for Trials in PA.

2. In the search results, click the NCI Trial Identifier link for that trial. The Trial Identification page appears.

3. On the Trial Identification page, check out the trial. For instructions, refer to Checking In and Checking Out Trials. (This checkout step is optional for Super Abstractors.)

4. On the Scientific Data menu, click Arms. The Arms page appears, with or without any arm records displayed.

5. Click Add. The Add Arm page appears. The interventions that have been abstracted previously are displayed on the right side of the page. 
   

6. In the drop-down lists and text fields, select or enter the appropriate information. The following table describes the fields. An asterisk (*) indicates a required field.

   Trial Description	Instruction
   Label*	Type the descriptive name of the arm.
   Type*	Select the appropriate arm function. Valid values are as follows:  Experimental. An arm or group in which an experimental drug or regimen is being administered. Used when the trial specifies that one arm is a control arm and the other is experimental, or when the other arm is a placebo arm. Active Comparator. An arm or group in which active drugs are given. Includes arms that are mixing active drugs and placebos. Used when the term “control arm” is specified in the protocol and when another arm is designated as the experimental arm. There can be more than one active comparator arm. Placebo Comparator. An arm or group in which only a placebo is given. Sham Comparator. An arm or group in which only a mock therapy that is not a drug is administered No intervention. An observational arm or group Other. An arm or group which does not fall into any of the above categories.
   Arm Description	Type a brief description of the arm. You must provide an arm description or existing intervention description when abstracting multi-arm trials.
   Assignment	For arm types other than No Intervention, select the check box in the column for the intervention assigned to the current arm.

   
   

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7. Repeat the steps above until all arms have been assigned an intervention and all interventions have been assigned to at least one arm.
8. Click Save.