Arm management
In the context of randomization in clinical trials, an arm is a group of patients (subjects) participating in a study and receiving certain treatments or interventions. Usually, clinical trials involve multiple arms with an even and fair spread of randomized subjects to properly evaluate the efficacy, safety, or other outcomes of the studied treatment.
In the eClinical system, arms are configured and associated with specific treatments in the Study Designer (SD) application and then populated to IWRS for further subject allocation resulting from randomization activities.
All the arms preconfigured for your study you can find in the Arm list along with the details explained in the following table.
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Details |
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Arm Name |
Represents the name of an arm that usually is a descriptive label or identifier that helps to understand the nature of the interventions per arm, for example, Low Dose and High Dose. |
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Arm Code |
Represents the code—unique identifier—assigned to each arm to facilitate data management, analysis, and reporting. This value can be amended upon editing arm details.
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Description |
Represents the arm description if any is added to the system. This value can be amended upon editing arm details. |
Here are the arm management features available in IWRS: