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04/22/2006
CREDIT:
1. The File Ops > Staff > Edit Staff and Assignments > SHOW EXISTING FILE now allows sorting by column head directly on the display page. The sortings are: Name, Institution, and Position. Clicking on one of the links redisplays the page in that selected order.

2. On the Patient Calendar Cascade Page, there is now a link to "Next Unlocked Event" to anchor the user to the next open event for Cascading. At that point in the Calendar, there is a "Top" link for quick jump to the top of the page.

3. There is a new Financial Report: Protocol Milestone Payments. Select the protocol and the report will splay payments (by check) across a colored grid indicating which checks paid which Milestones. Multiple payments to the same milestone are also supported. Milestones that are "Ignored" are removed from the grid and not counted in the total values per milestone.

4. There is a new File Operations System Variable Default #115. Hide Patient Checkoff Ignored Events that is set to DISABLE by default. If enabled, when the Patient Checkoff All Events button is clicked, any Ignored events will not be displayed. This speeds up (significantly) a long calendar where there are a lot of ignored events. To facilitate, there is a new button that will display at the top of the calendar to Show "Ignored" Events. When the events are shown, a new button is available to Hide "Ignored" Events.

If there are no events Ignored on the patient calendar, no buttons appear.

5. On the Patient Protocol Page (Event Focus), below the BSA calculator there is a new button for Archiving the Patient Protocol. Similar to Archiving the Patient, this module allows for just archiving the study. Using this module will Ignore all future events for the patient on the study.

On the Patient Data Page, where the Protocols are displayed (on the Toolbox), Archived Studies appear in Red.

6. The Link Patients & Protocols Page now allows for the selection of Intergroup Number as the target Protocol. The output can also be sorted by Intergroup, and doing so limits the output to ONLY those studies that have an Intergroup Number entered on the Protocol Page. In the Columns to Include area, there is also a new checkbox for the column Intergroup.

7. There are 3 new Document Macros available for letter merging:
@NextDrugDate
@NextDrugTime
@NextDrugNumber

These data place-holders pull the next open DRUG events from the patient calendar, and put in the appropriate information. Of course, the Time and Number need to be ENABLED in the File Operations > System environment for those pieced of data to be available in patient calendars.

8. The Protocol Current Status Report has been providing the number of Accruals as an optional column. Now, that column can be expanded to list the specific patients associated with the Accrual Number. Further, if the System Defaults has the Protocol Closed Date field active, that column is now available in the report as well. Additionally, a separate column for the protocol Status is available (by default it is listed directly under the Protocol ID in the output table).

Further, the report now includes the optional "Alternate Protocol ID" that some institutions have Enabled in File Operations (#30-#31).

9. The When On/Off Study report now allows for the EXCLUSION of the "Survival" Protocol as well as studies with patients associated with Arms X, Y, and Z.

10. On the Patient Protocol Page (Event Focus), if the patient has been unblinded, the notice and drug are shown in the upper right corner of the page.


IDEA:
See CREDIT items: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
IRBANA:
See CREDIT items: 1<>/b?
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