Glossary

Actual time

Time that a dose or observation actually happened (in UTC), as opposed to nominal time. See also Relative time and Clock time.

Analysis

Any type of procedure that results in information that describes a set of data.

Analytical method

The type of assay that was performed to assess the concentration of drug (or other compounds) in a sample, which is usually collected from blood, plasma, or urine.

Arm

Generally refers to a treatment or combination of treatments administered to a group of subjects or patients. For crossover studies, arm is sometimes used to denote a sequence group (a group of patients that received a particular sequence of treatments).

Assay

Analysis of a substance or mixture to determine the quantity of its constituents or to detect the presence of a substance.

Audit trail

A report that contains all additions, changes, and deletions made to the study data, units, observation data, and dosing data from Integral.

Baseline covariate

An independent variable in a Drug model, sampled before active treatment begins in a study.

Blinding type

Indicates which individuals involved in a study are allowed to see the treatments associated with data that is collected.

Clock time

Time expressed as a date and/or time (in UTC), rather than relative to first dose or start of study. See also Relative time.

Column

A display of the attributes of each subject and for each subject data collection point in a study. Columns can also contain observation data, reasons for changing data (for the audit trial), etc.

Compound

The drug molecule under study. A compound may include one or more Formulation of that drug. The term is used in Integral to group studies that are investigating the same molecule.

Conversion factor

Part of an equation that enables conversion of data from one unit to another. For example, to convert from grams to milligrams, multiply the number of grams by a conversion factor of 1,000 to get the number of milligrams.

Covariate

An independent variable in a Drug model. Generally, some subject characteristic of interest, such as age or blood pressure. See also Baseline covariate.

Database

A file or set of structurally-related files that contains data. May contain one or more data sets. For example, in Integral, users log on to one database, in which they may access any number of data sets.

Dropout

Event at which a subject’s participation in a study ends.

Drug model

Any combination of population PK/PD model(s), parameter and baseline covariate distributions, disease progress models, placebo models, adherence models, etc. A drug model may include one or more Structural model.

Duration

Length of an infusion dose.

End time

Time that a dose ends (for example, relative actual end time, relative nominal end time, etc.).

Event

Thing that happened at a specific time: a single dose, observation, or unscheduled event. See also Unscheduled event.

Form

Description of the physical attributes (i.e., an indication) associated with a product (i.e., a molecule).

Formulation

The point of dose input into a structural (PK/PD) model.

Formulation context

The dilution of the formulation.

Grid

A grid control, displaying data in a worksheet.

Group

Short for Treatment group.

Indication

An effect that is of interest produced by the application of a molecule. The FDA approves an indication, not a molecule. For example, the FDA approves Drug X for treating disease Y. The FDA does not approve Drug X in general.

Model

A set of mathematical equations that describe the underlying process of interest.

Model data

The information used to describe the process presented by the study data.

Nominal time

Time specified in the protocol for a dose or observation, as opposed to Actual time that a dose or observation was taken. Expressed relative to the first dose, or the start of the study, phase, or period.

Observation

A single piece of data for a subject collected at a particular data collection point. Observations can be explained, filtered, and analyzed by several defined dimensions. Each observation has associated audit information.

Observation data

Time-dependent events that contain some form of measured values. The data collected during the study.

Parameter

Variable defining the shape of a structural model.

Phase

A specific component of a clinical trial, such as lead-in or treatment.

Plot

A graph or chart of data.

Portfolio

A collection of molecules.

Product

Chemical entities (i.e., a molecule) under investigation in a study having an associated form.

Profile

A collection of data points described by a collection of unique identifiers, which uniquely identify subject responses for a particular situation.

Property

Column properties are settings for a data column, i.e. column name, type and default units.

Protocol

Planned activities in the trial, including: enrollment, lead-in phase windowing, study design structure, subject assignments, and scheduled treatments and observations for the lead-in, active and follow-up phases of the study.

Relative time

Elapsed time since the first dose or the start of the study, period, or phase. As opposed to Clock time. Uses: relative nominal time or nominal_time_relative, relative actual time or actual_time_relative, relative actual end time or actual_end_time_relative. See also Nominal time and Actual time.

Savepoint

An analysis saved to Integral that requires an e-signature and represents a snapshot of the analysis and its results at that point in time. Savepoints are generated through the Integral Plugin for Phoenix or the Integral Client Application and are uniquely versioned by Integral automatically.

Sequence

Short for treatment sequence.

Simulation

Generally, a Monte-Carlo simulation.

Sort keys

A collection of unique database fields that distinguishes one set of data points from another (such as a plasma level profile). The difference between the sets of data points usually ascribes certain different attributes to the underlying processes being studied. For parallel trials, treatment and subject are generally the sort keys used to capture individual subject data, while treatment, period (or phase), and subject are generally used for crossover trials.

Structural model

The set of functions defining the shape of a model (such as a structural PK, PD, or PK/PD model). Does not include parameter distributions.

Subject Identification

The ability to uniquely identify subjects is crucial to the functionality of the system. Since this application will be receiving data from many sources in many formats, no one unique identifier exists between the systems. Integral requires users to define a set of fields (data elements) that, taken together, can uniquely identify a subject for a study.

Subject identifier

That which uniquely identifies a subject from any other subject in a study.

Treatment

Combination of one or more drugs given at specific doses and times/schedule.

Treatment group

Generic term for a treatment arm (in a parallel study design) or treatment sequence (in a crossover or Latin square study design).

Unit

The unit of measurement associated with sample data that are collected.

Unit category

A group of units that measure the same thing (length, time, concentration, etc.).

Unscheduled event

A PD event with some probability of occurrence, such as an adverse drug reaction or subject dropout.

Workbook

A file that contains one or more worksheets.

Worksheet

A page in a workbook that contains a data grid.


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