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You can search for, and select, interventions from a stored list of active intervention terms extracted from NCIt and link them to a trial. NCIt is an online database developed and maintained by the National Cancer Institute Enterprise Vocabulary Services. You can find more detailed information about NCIt at http://ncit.nci.nih.gov/.

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Column Name

Definition

Name

Standard name used to refer to each intervention. For drugs, this is the generic name. For investigational new drugs that do not yet have a generic name, this may be the chemical name, company code, or serial number.

Other Names

Synonym or other name

Footnote
Alternate names you record appear in the TSR and XML documents.

Description

For drug interventions, a summary of the drug’s chemical nature and (potential) mechanism of action, and/or details such as dosage form, dosage, frequency, and duration.
For other interventions, a summary of the procedure or device that provides key details that distinguish it from similar interventions.

Tip

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You can generate descriptions for drug, radiation, and surgical procedure interventions using Protocol Abstraction’s structured approach. To do so, see Generating Drug, Radiation, and Procedure/Surgery Descriptions.

Type

Mode of intervention, for example, drug or device.

Footnotes Display

Additionally, you can add, edit, reorder, and delete records.

Info

title	Sorting intervention records

You can change the sort order (ascending/descending) of any column other than Edit and Delete by clicking the column name and selecting the up or down arrow that appears.

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