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1 Introduction

This document describes the CDISC implementation of the Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Symptom Assessment Questionnaire v1.0 (NSCLC-SAQ V1.0), a patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument

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The CDISC Intellectual Property Policy can be found on the CDISC website at: https://www.cdisc.org/about/bylaws.

1.1 Representations and Warranties, Limitations of Liability, and Disclaimers

This document is a supplement to the SDTMIG for Human Clinical Trials and is covered under Appendix F of that document, which describes representations, warranties, limitations of liability, and disclaimers. Please see Appendix F of the SDTMIG for a complete version of this material.

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Although the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has provided input with regard to this supplement, this input does not constitute US FDA endorsement of any particular instrument.

2 Copyright Status

Critical Path Institute owns the copyright for the NSCLC-SAQ V1.0 and has granted CDISC permission to include this supplement in the CDISC library of QRS data standards supplements. 

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• Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Consortium - Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Symptom Assessment Questionnaire (NSCLC-SAQ) Provisional User Manual, Version 6: March 24, 2017.

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• McCarrier KP, Atkinson TM, DeBusk KP, Liepa AM, Scanlon M, Coons SJ and on behalf of the Patient-Reported Outcome Consortium. Qualitative Development and Content Validity of the Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Symptom Assessment Questionnaire (NSCLC-SAQ), A Patient-reported Outcome Instrument. Clinical Therapeutics

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  2016; 38(4):794-810.
  

3 The QS Domain Model

3.1 Assumptions for the QS Domain Model

All assumptions and business rules described in the SDTMIG QS domain are applicable to this supplement. Additional assumptions specific to the NSCLC-SAQ V1.0 are listed below. This instrument is intended to be administered electronically per the user manual but a paper option exists if electronic administration is not possible. See the user manual for further details.

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1. Each of the 7 items is rated on a 5-point verbal rating scale

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   from either "No <symptom> at All" to "Very Severe <symptom>", or from "Never" to "Always" (depending on the item's question structure), relative to either intensity or frequency. For the NSCLC-SAQ V1.0, QSORRES is populated with the text description of the rating scale response chosen.  

2. No score is displayed for any item on the instrument in either the paper form or the electronic format; however, the user manual for the CRF includes the standardized representation of zero (e.g., "No Coughing at All”, “No Pain at All”, “Never”) through 4 (e.g., “Very Severe Coughing”, "Very Severe Pain", “Always”). Because (a) electronic administration is expected frequently, (b) instructions are provided in the user manual

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   for scoring from C-Path's PRO Consortium, and (c) the numeric score for each question is expected to be submitted with the data, CDISC will represent the standardized scores in QSSTRESC and QSSTRESN.

3. The time period of evaluation for the NSCLC-SAQ V1.0 is populated in the QSEVLINT field in ISO 8601 format when the evaluation interval can be precisely described as duration. The evaluation interval for the NSCLC-SAQ V1.0 is the past 7 days.

4. If no response is provided for an item, then QSORRES, QSSTRESC, and QSSTRESN are all set to null and QSSTAT = “NOT DONE”.

5. A total score, ranging from 0-20, and 5 subscores, not collected on the NSCLC-SAQ V1.0 CRF but documented in the user manual, are considered as captured data and are not considered as derived in the example below.

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    These scores may be submitted in SDTM or derived in the Analysis Data Model (ADaM) per scoring instructions from  user manual.

   1. If operationally defined by the sponsor, it is the sponsor's responsibility to set the --DRVFL flag based on their eCRF process to derive subtotals and total scores. An investigator-derived score will be considered a captured score and not flagged. When subtotal and total scores are derived by the sponsor, the derived flag (--DRVFL) is set to Y.

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      However, when the subtotal and total scores are received from a central provider or vendor, the value would go into QSORRES and

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      would be null (See SDTMIG Section 4.1.8.1, Origin Metadata for Variables).

   2. If scores are received by the sponsor, it is recommended that they are submitted to SDTM and verified in ADaM.

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6. Terminology

   1. QSCAT, QSTESTCD, and QSTEST values are included in CDISC Controlled Terminology.

   2. A full list of value sets for the result field is provided in Section 4, SDTM Mapping Strategy.

3.2 Example for the NSCLC-SAQ V1.0 QS Domain Model

The NSCLC-SAQ V1.0 example below shows the terminology used to implement the instrument in the QS domain. This example shows the data for 2 subjects collected at the baseline visit for a NSCLC-SAQ V1.0 instrument. The example uses CDISC Controlled Terminology for QSTESTCD, QSTEST, and QSCAT. All original results are represented with preferred terminology in QSORRES. This result is then transformed into the standard numeric score in QSSTRESN and a character representation of the standard numeric score in QSSTRESC.

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4 SDTM Mapping Strategy

This section is used for reference regarding the CRF data capture and to understand the alignment of the instrument to the SDTM QS domain. It also provides guidance on how the result variables (QSORRES, QSSTRESC, and QSSTRESN) should be populated.

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