Initial Considerations
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- Create variable that collects the patient's name similar to the following:
Variable: patient
What is the patient's name?
- Next, to use the patient's actual name within the text of the next question specify a field label that embeds the variable name "patient" within square brackets similar to the following:
Variable: doctor
What is the name of [patient]'s doctor?
- In the edit field dialog, the field label might look similar to the following:
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Additional Considerations
Piping is useful in Longitudinal Projects when you want to reference a participant’s demographic information in separate events. You need to indicate where the information you want to pipe is located by using the variable name AND unique event name. For example:
- The variable name = “dob”
- The variable is located in the “baseline” event (unique event name is “baseline_arm_1”)
- Combine these two pieces: [unique event name][variable name]
For example, [baseline_arm_1][dob]
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