Candid

Analysis Lifecycle Management System & Metadata Repository

Primary Objectives

Manage Deliverables

Centrally track all departmental deliverables (aka Analyses). Communicate when they are due as well as Statistician and Programmer assignments. Track all TFL and Dataset metadata, QC effort, bugs and status.

  • Centralize oversight of primary departmental work
  • Eliminate individual spreadsheets for tracking
  • Track work as you do it

Publish, Schedule and Review TFLs

Securely publish TFLs to study teams. Schedule and conduct TFL reviews via the browser. Reviewers get to see each other's feedback in real time. Statisticians adjudicate the collected feedback as programming instructions for the stat programming group.

  • Markup TFLs in using your browser
  • Reviewers can see each other's comments in real time
  • Review comments and actionable ones into instructions for Programming

Track Issues

Full bug tracking allows programmers a single place to record, discuss, and close out bugs, issues, and questions about the TFLs, Datasets or other artifacts related to an Analysis project.

  • Add Issues for TFLs or Datasets, or both
  • User comment history is automatically maintained
  • Export and print Issue reports

Store Metadata

Centrally store and share, retrieve, and reuse TFL and Dataset metadata across analysis projects. Leverage your metadata via Candid's extensive API library to meet automation goals.

Generate Define-XML v2.0

Import your Define-XML v2.0 compliant dataset metadata from a spreadsheet template we provide and manage that metadata for each Analysis to auto-generate Define-XML.

  • Track all dataset metadata
  • Reviewers can see each other's comments in real time
  • Review comments and actionable ones into instructions for Programming

Designed for Biostat Teams

Statisticians

  • Define and schedule analysis projects
  • Accelerate feedback loop between statisticians and programmers
  • Review TFLs and adjudicate feedback from Reviewers

Programmers

  • Communicate programming progress and testing
  • Define schema used to implement the SAP
  • Publish TFLs for review

Reviewers

  • What am I reviewing?
  • When can I review and how long do I have to complete my review?
  • Where do I review?

Management

  • Staff oversight and resourcing
  • Performance metrics
  • Auditing

Where it fit's in the work flow of a Study?

Candid is a Biostat team project management tool that, in the context of conducting a study, fits in the space after raw clinical trial data is collected and just before programmed, QC'd, reviewed TFLs are given to Regulatory for publishing.

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Workflows & Roles

The diagram below shows the typical roles and pathways for analyzing clinical trial data.

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Which browsers are supported?

Candid is a web-based, database application.

All modern and up-to-date browsers are supported:

  • Google Chrome
  • Apple Safari
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Mozilla Firefox

Note: Candid does not support any version of Internet Explorer (IE).