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naming each arm and entering values in the Assessment, Day Assessment Opens and Window fields. Once you have
saved your assessment schedule, the Specify Instruments hyperlink will become active. Click on this hyperlink for the
arm/ assessment row of interest to access the Arm/Assessment Details page. The arm name and assessment number
will be listed at the top of this page. All instruments included in the study are listed. Select Not Included under the
Instrument Block field for any instrument within your study that you do not want administered for this
arm/assessment.
Establishing instruments included in an Assessment
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From Set-Up, navigate to the Advanced Study Setup page.
Click on the Specify Instruments hyperlink for the arm/assessment
In the Instrument Block drop down menu, select Not Included for all of
the instruments not administered in this arm/assessment.
Instrument Order
How do I define the order of instrument administration for each arm/assessment?
Instruments can be grouped together for administration. For example, you may wish to group sociodemographic
instruments or patient-reported outcome instruments together. On the Arm/Assessment Details page, each
instrument can be assigned to a group using the Instrument Block field. For example, all sociodemographic
instruments could be assigned to Instrument Block 1, and all patient-reported outcome instruments to Instrument
Block 2. The order of instruments within a given block can be fixed or random. Under Block Administration, select
Fixed if you want blocks presented sequentially. Select Random if blocks should be presented randomly. You can
have some blocks presented randomly and some fixed. The Order Within Block field can be used to fix the instrument
order or assign random order within an Instrument Block.
In the example below, Block 1, is fixed while Blocks 2 and 3 are set to be administered in a random order. The order
of instruments within a given block (see Order within Block column) is sometimes fixed and sometimes random.
Here, Instrument Block 1 is always administered first with the demographics instrument followed by clinical
instrument. Blocks 2 and 3 are always presented next, but the system will randomly determine if Block 2 or Block 3
will be presented first. The PROMIS instruments within Blocks 2 and 3 are also presented in a randomized order.
If you add an instrument to your study after you have initially set the instrument administration on the
Arm/Assessment Details page, the newly included instrument will be placed in the last “Order within Block” position
under the first block (block=1). This will be done for all arm/assessments. You will need to access each
Arm/Assessment Details instance to make necessary revisions.
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