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Dispensing visit management

A dispensing visit is a subject visit to a site at which they receive their dispensing packages (medications) in the course of a clinical trial.

In IWRS, by configuring dispensing visits you can define which dispensing packages and under which conditions are given to subjects during their treatment visits.

The dispensing visit configuration is version-bound, meaning that you can create and implement a set of configurations and associate it with the specific version that can be applied to the whole study or only to certain sites or subjects. This helps maintain change history and satisfies international multisite studies, where different locations and subjects can follow their own dispensation settings.

All the dispensing visits and their versions previously configured in the IWRS application are displayed under the Visit Dispensing page with their respective properties and available options as explained in the following table.

Dispensing visit list
Figure 1. Dispensing visit list

Column

Details

Visit Name

Represents the name of a dispensing visit during which the dispensing package must be given to a subject.

Visit Type

Represents the type of a dispensing visit, namely:

  • Scheduled

  • Unscheduled

  • Common

  • Cycle

Period

Represents a study phase according to which the subjects have been grouped and randomized.

Factor

Represents the condition under which the dispensing package must be given to the subject during the dispensing visit.

Dispensing Package

Indicates which package must be dispensed to the subject during the dispensing visit.

Alternative Packages

Indicates the list of packages that can be dispensed to the subject during the visit as an alternative to the main dispensing package.

You can learn more about the dispensing visit list configuration in the following sections:

See also
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A participant who is enrolled in a clinical trial and assigned to the site.

In a clinical trial, a location where the subject treatment and drug dispensation occur. It can be a hospital, a private laboratory, or other institutions.

In IWRS, a set of items to be dispensed (given) to a particular subject in a course of their treatment.

An occurrence in a clinical trial in which the subject comes to a site to receive treatment, undergo some tests, or complete other required procedures.