CDISC Procedure for CDISC ODM

LOCATION Statement

Specifies information about the physical location of the study.

Requirement:	Optional for exporting.
Restriction:	This is an advanced statement. You must be familiar with CDISC ODM.
Requirement:	Metadata attributes must be stored in a SAS data set that you reference in the DATA= argument. You cannot specify metadata attributes in the LOCATION statement.

LOCATION DATA=libref.member-name ;

Arguments

DATA=libref.member-name

specifies the SAS data set that contains the metadata attributes. The libref, which is assigned with the LIBNAME statement, is an alias for the data storage location where member-name is stored.

LOCATIONOID="ODM-identifier"

specifies a unique identifier for a location. Enclose the identifier in single or double quotation marks. A string of characters up to the maximum OID length that is defined in CDISC ODM is supported.

Requirement:

Required.

NAME="location-name"

specifies the name of the location. Enclose the name in single or double quotation marks.

Requirement:

Required.

LOCATIONTYPE=SPONSOR | SITE | CRO | LAB | OTHER

specifies the type of location.

Requirement:

Required.

STUDYOID="ODM-identifier"

specifies a unique identifier for the study in which this location is participating. Enclose the identifier in single or double quotation marks. A string of characters up to the maximum OID length that is defined in CDISC ODM is supported.

Requirement:

Required.

METADATAVERSIONOID="ODM-identifier"

specifies the metadata version that is used at the location. Enclose the identifier in single or double quotation marks. A string of characters up to the maximum OID length that is defined in CDISC ODM is supported.

Requirement:

Required.

EFFECTIVEDATE="date"

specifies the date of the metadata version, in compliance with ISO 8601 guidelines. Enclose the date in single or double quotation marks.

Requirement:

Required.

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