Articles by Ian Sparks

Standards Compliance

Standard Libraries. The concept is straightforward; A Standard Library is a set of Forms, Data Dictionaries, Edit Checks and other study design elements which can be used as building-blocks to assemble an EDC study design. Using a Standard Library should increase efficiency, eliminate variation, reduce study build times and therefore …

Unicode

If you haven't heard of Unicode you have certainly seen it. You are seeing it now since Unicode is the standard for the encoding of characters viewable in Web Browsers and on computers in general. As of this writing, version 10 of the standard includes more then 136,000 characters …

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Using Diagnostics to Improve your Study Design

One of the main functions of TrialGrid is to identify issues in a Medidata Rave study build before it goes to production since corrective migrations are time consuming and costly to manage. TrialGrid Diagnostics automate best practice guidelines to provide assurance that these guidelines have been considered and applied where …