CDISC Terminology is
maintained by and distributed as part of the National Cancer Institute
(NCI) Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) Thesaurus.
For
more information, see References. Periodically, CDISC Terminology is
updated to include the work of numerous terminology project teams.
Updates are in the form of new packages or sets of terminology.
The SAS Clinical Standards
Toolkit offers snapshots of the NCI EVS Thesaurus. These snapshots
are typically coordinated with the release of other CDISC standards
that use the thesaurus. Several snapshots are currently supported
across several standards.
The SAS Clinical Standards
Toolkit offers a tool to import controlled terminology from the ODM
XML files that can be downloaded from the NCI CDISC Controlled Terminology
FTP site (
http://evs.nci.nih.gov/ftp1/CDISC/SDTM/).
For SDTM, these snapshots
are supplied:
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The 201104 snapshot was taken from
NCI EVS Controlled Terminology for SDTM, released April 2011, in support
of the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.5. This snapshot supports
the
Study Data Tabulation Model Implementation Guide.
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The 201212 snapshot was taken from
NCI EVS Controlled Terminology for SDTM, released December 2012, in
support of the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.5. This snapshot supports
the
Study Data Tabulation Model Implementation Guide.
For SEND, these snapshots
are supplied:
-
The 201201 snapshot was taken from
NCI EVS Controlled Terminology for SEND, released January 2012, in
support of the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.5. This snapshot supports
the
Standard for Exchange of Nonclinical Data Implementation
Guide: Nonclinical Studies Version 3.0 (SENDIG V3.0).
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The 201212 snapshot was taken from
NCI EVS Controlled Terminology for SEND, released December 2012, in
support of the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.5. This snapshot supports
the
Standard for Exchange of Nonclinical Data Implementation
Guide: Nonclinical Studies Version 3.0 (SENDIG V3.0).
For ADaM, these snapshots
are supplied:
-
The 201101 snapshot was taken from
NCI EVS Controlled Terminology for ADaM, released January 2011, in
support of the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.5. This snapshot supports
the
Analysis Data Model (ADaM) Implementation Guide Version
1.0 (ADaMIG v1.0).
-
The 201107 snapshot was taken from
NCI EVS Controlled Terminology for ADaM, released July 2011, in support
of the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.5. This snapshot supports
the
Analysis Data Model (ADaM) Implementation Guide Version
1.0 (ADaMIG v1.0).
For CDASH, these snapshots
are supplied:
-
The 201104 snapshot was taken from
NCI EVS Controlled Terminology for CDASH, released April 2011, in
support of the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.5. This snapshot supports
CDISC CDASH.
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The 201212 snapshot was taken from
NCI EVS Controlled Terminology for CDASH, released December 2012,
in support of the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.5. This snapshot
supports CDISC CDASH.
Note: Although SAS does not provide
the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit with the CDASH standard, the terminology
is provided as a convenience. The terminology snapshots from 2011
were also available in the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit 1.4.
Each CDISC Terminology
standard includes a SAS format catalog (cterms.sas7bcat) and a SAS
data set (cterms.sas7bdat). The catalog and data set are found in
this global standards library folder (where
xxxx is
the specific standard (adam, cdash, or sdtm) and YYYYMM is the specific
snapshot (201104, 201212, and so on):
global standards library directory/standards/cdisc-terminology1.5/cdisc-xxxx/<current
OR YYYYMM>/formats