1. Applicants may choose which disposition events and milestones to collect for a study. A milestone is a protocol-specified point in time that is not assigned to an epoch. A disposition event describes whether a subject completed the study or portion of a study (epoch), or the reason they did not complete. Applicants may collect 1 disposition event for the study as a whole, or they may collect dispositions for each epoch of a trial.
  2. Disposition data may be collected on a CRF dedicated to disposition data, or collected across several forms that also contain data that are not DS. In the latter case, the disposition should be mapped to the appropriate DS tabulation variable (e.g., DSCAT, DSSTDTC, DSTERM, DSDECOD). The same disposition data should not be collected both on domain-specific forms and on a DS form.
    1. The collection DS domain does not specify where to collect protocol milestones within the CRF. Protocol milestones may be included in convenient places in the CRF. For example, informed consent date may be collected on the same CRF page as demographics data and mapped to the tabulation DS domain.
      1. The CDASH Model allows for date of death to be collected on any CRF deemed appropriate by the applicant and mapped to the tabulation DS domain; the date of death also may be collected as part of a DS form. However, consideration should be given to designing the CRF to collect the date of death only once in a study. DTHDAT is included in scenario 2.
  3. Controlled Terminology (NCOMPLT) is focused on disposition events, and is used when DSCAT is "DISPOSITION EVENT". Because the complete list of CT may not be appropriate, applicants may choose to include only subsets of CT on the CRF. The choices that appear for a DS event are dependent upon the event itself, and the contents of the list can vary if data are collected for multiple epochs in a study. 
  4. DSCONT and DSNEXT data are used to aid in monitoring and data cleaning. Because the questions relate to future plans, the validity of the responses cannot be ascertained until the subject enters the subsequent epoch or new study. DSCONT and DSNEXT are include in scenario 2.