Data can be reviewed using the Subject Matrix or the Queries page. Each of these review options is outlined below. Monitors also have the option of reviewing data using the Source Data Verification page.
Review and Manage Data from the Participant Matrix
Typically, Monitors and Data Managers are responsible for reviewing data, but anyone with access to the Participant Matrix can view/review data as needed. Data Managers can also remove a participant and/or reassign a participant to a different site. The actions column presents the appropriate actions available, based on your user role. The following displays the actions available to a Data Manager:
To review data, click the view icon for the participant whose data you’d like to review.
The participant detail page displays. All visit-based events are listed first, followed by all common events.
To review data on a specific form, click the view icon for that form.
Filter Participant Details
As you review data, you can enter search criteria for the Common Events – for example, to show only AEs that are ongoing. You can also change the number of rows listed for any of the Common Events, and you can sort Common Events by clicking the toggles next to any of the column headings. When you customize anything related to what is displayed for Common Events, the Custom View On button displays at the top of the Participant Detail page.
The Custom View is active for that participant throughout the time you are logged into OpenClinica. If you view a different participant’s detail page, the view may not be customized, or if it is, it may be a different customization. In the example above, throughout the current session, any time you view participant 001, that same custom view is in effect.
To clear a custom view, click anywhere on the Custom View On button and all view customizations are removed for that participant.
Create Queries
As you review data, if you need more information from the site for a particular item, click the bubble icon next to that item to create a query.
To create the query:
- Type the query in the Comment box.
- The system automatically assigns the query to the person who entered the data, but you can select a different user from the drop-down list if you’d like.
Even if you assign a query to a specific user, anyone with access to that participant’s data can respond to the query. For example, if you assign it to a CRC at a site, that query would be on that CRC’s to-do list, but any other user at that site who has access to OpenClinica could respond to the query.
- To email the assigned user to make him/her aware of the query, check the Email box.
The email includes a link to log into OpenClinica; no study data is referenced in the email contents.
- To save and assign the query, click Submit.
Note that the item history is tracked in the lower portion of the query dialog box.
Continue to review and query data as needed.
The color of the query bubble represents the query status, as follows:
| Status | Bubble Appearance | Comments |
| No Query |  | Click this bubble to create a query. |
| New |  | A query has been added by either a site user (e.g., a comment/annotation), data manager, or monitor, or was auto-generated by OpenClinica based on built-in edit checks. |
| Updated |  | Either a site user, data manager, or monitor has added information to the query. |
| Closed |  | The query is considered resolved by the data manager or monitor. |
| Closed Modified |  | Slightly paler than Closed, this means the data was changed after the query was closed |
Review and Manage Data from the Queries Page
To review and manage data from the Queries page, from the Tasks menu, select Queries.
The Queries page displays. There is a summary table followed by a detalied list of queries that is filtered to display Queries only. To see entries for Reason for Change, click the gray filter box under the Type column and select Reason for Change (see Marking a Form Complete). You can filter the Queries view to filter any column that includes a gray filter box.
Details about each query are listed in the detail section of the page. You have options above the table that allow you to show more columns (Show More), download the queries, or print.
To review data associated with a query, you have two options:
- View Query Only: This option displays a shaded background showing the item value in question, with the query and item history in the foreground. You can add a query comment, assign the query, and you have the option of emailing the assigned user. All users with access to queries can update the query; only Data Managers and Monitors have access to close a query.
- View Query Within Record: This option displays a shaded background of all the item values on the form for that query. You have access to update the query and update and/or review all the data on the form. This provides reviewers with more context when reviewing specific item data issues.
You can then update the query comment, use the x to close the query details, and review the entire form in question. Data Managers and Monitors have the additional option of closing the query.
You can continue to use the Queries page to filter queries as needed, and to work through the detailed table to review query comments, the item and query histories, and the item and/or form values associated with each query.