Analyzing Domain Use and Promoting a Custom Domain

Problem

You want to know which domains are used the most. And, if a custom domain is reused significantly, you want to promote that custom domain to be part of the data standard.

Solution

You can view standard domain and custom domain use in clinical components. Using this usage information, you can identify custom domains that are used enough to become part of the data standard. Typically, a custom domain is for single use. It is available only to the clinical component in which it is defined. When a custom domain becomes a standard domain (that is, the custom domain is promoted to become part of the data standard), it can be included in any clinical component.

Note: You must have appropriate permissions to view the Clinical Administration tree. For more information, see Adding Users to the Clinical Administrators Group.

Tasks

To analyze domain use and promote a custom domain, complete the following steps:

In the Clinical Administration tree, expand Data Standards. Right-click on the data standard that you want to analyze, and select Analyze Model Usage. The Analyze Model Usage dialog box appears. The Clinical Components list box displays all of the studies that currently use the selected data standard.
In the Clinical Components list box, select one or more of the studies that you want to analyze in detail. Click Show Domain Details.

You can filter which domains to display using the Show domains of type filter. If no domains match the filter criteria, then a message appears.
In the Domain Details list, a summary of the domains and domain columns appears. Each domain that is included in the clinical components that have been selected is displayed as a column in the list. To see the details of the domain, double-click on the folder to expand the rows. Blue boxes specify which columns are in each domain.

If the domain columns are identical across multiple clinical components, then you see the frequency in parentheses after the domain name. For domain columns that differ across clinical components, you see that each domain is listed separately.

To view with which clinical component a domain is associated, right-click on the column heading, and select Display Domain Paths.
Right-click on a custom domain column heading, and select Promote. A confirmation message appears.
Click Yes. A new standard domain is created from the custom domain.
To verify that a standard domain was created from the custom domain, complete the following steps:
1. In the Clinical Administration tree, expand the selected data standard.
2. Expand Domain Templates. The new standard domain should be located in this folder.