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Edit dispensing window

A dispensing window is a specific time frame during which the dispensing package can be administered to the subject during their treatment visit to the site. If the dispensing prescription has changed, you can update the details of your dispensing window.

For instance, by editing the dispensing window, you can change its time frames to better fit the current needs of your trial. Also, upon updating the existing dispensing window, you can add more of its cycles and configure specific windows for them.

The dispensing window configuration is version-bound. This helps maintain change history and satisfies international multisite studies, where different locations and subjects can follow their own dispensation schedules.

To edit a dispensing window

  1. In the IWRS application header, select the TREATMENT DESIGN tab.

  2. From the left pane, select Visit Dispensing and Window.

    Accessing visit dispensing and window configuration
    Figure 1. Accessing visit dispensing and window configuration

  3. On the page that opens, from the version menu, ensure the unlocked version unlocked_icon_purple.png is selected, otherwise, you cannot amend any dispensing visit or window configurations.

    If the current version is locked locked_icon_yellow.png, consider adding a new dispensing visit setting version.

    Selecting dispensing visit setting version
    Figure 2. Selecting dispensing visit setting version

  4. From the contents panel, select the Dispensing Window tab.

  5. In the Dispensing Window table that appears, go to the dispensing window configuration you need to update and in the Action(s) column next to it, select Edit pencil_icon.png.

    Selecting to edit dispensing window
    Figure 3. Selecting to edit dispensing window

  6. In the form that opens, update the values of Select Factor and Set Dispensing Visit configuration stages as needed. The values here are identical to the ones explained in the table of the Configure dispensing window section.

    Configuring dispensing window
    Figure 4. Configuring dispensing window

  7. Select save_button_red.png to implement the changes.

Upon saving, the dispensing window configuration is updated. Once the current visit dispensing version is published, the sites and subjects can be upgraded to populate the respective parameters and dates to the relevant subjects' dispensing plans.

In this section:

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

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

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.

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.