Entity Stratum Group

DescriptionA designation that segregates study subjects into collections in order to balance the study for analysis. The stratum group is made up of a combination of stratification criterion answers, which ultimately is used to assign study subjects or experimental units to arms on a study.

For example:
A given study may want to require even distribution of gender and age so stratum groups may be defined as: males under 18, males 18 and over, females under 18, and females 18 and over.

Attributes
Group DescrGroup Descr
Group NumGroup Num

Relationship
characterizedStratumGroupcharacterizedStratumGroup
randomizedStratumGrouprandomizedStratumGroup

Dependencies
 NONE

Reverse Dependencies
 

Attribute Details

 Group Descr
DescriptionThe textual representation of the stratum group.

For example:
Primary malignancy
Weight loss severity
Concurrent therapy
Patient age (years)
Gleason score
Baseline PSA
Data TypeStandards - Data Domains.ddm/Data Domains/Text Large [VARCHAR(1024)]
Is Part Of PrimaryKeyfalse
Is Requiredfalse
Is Derivedfalse
Is Surrogate Keyfalse



 Group Num
DescriptionAn integer that identifies the stratum group to study personnel, such as the statistician and registrars.

For example:
Patient age (years)
Stratum A
Gender
Data TypeStandards - Data Domains.ddm/Data Domains/Alphanumeric [VARCHAR(80)]
Is Part Of PrimaryKeyfalse
Is Requiredfalse
Is Derivedfalse
Is Surrogate Keyfalse

Relationship Details

 characterizedStratumGroup
Is Identifying Relationshipfalse
Child TableStratum Group
Child Role NamecharacterizingDefinedStratificationCriterionPermissibleResult
Child MultiplicityZERO_TO_MANY
Child Referential Integrity: On DeleteNONE
Child Referential Integrity: On InsertNONE
Child Referential Integrity: On UpdateNONE
Parent TableDefined Criterion Permissible Result
Parent Role NamecharacterizedStratumGroup
Parent MultiplicityZERO_TO_MANY
Parent Referential Integrity: On DeleteNONE
Parent Referential Integrity: On InsertNONE
Parent Referential Integrity: On UpdateNONE



 randomizedStratumGroup
Description
Is Identifying Relationshipfalse
Child TableStratum Group
Child Role NamerandomizingRandomizationBookEntry
Child MultiplicityZERO_TO_MANY
Child Referential Integrity: On DeleteSET_NULL
Child Referential Integrity: On InsertNONE
Child Referential Integrity: On UpdateSET_NULL
Parent TableRandomization Book Entry
Parent Role NamerandomizedStratumGroup
Parent MultiplicityZERO_TO_ONE
Parent Referential Integrity: On DeleteNONE
Parent Referential Integrity: On InsertSET_NULL
Parent Referential Integrity: On UpdateSET_NULL