March 31, 2017


This directory contains documentation, data files, and other resources related
to controlled terminology used by the Clinical Data Interchange Standards
Consortium (CDISC).  NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) is working with
CDISC to develop and support controlled terminology in several areas, notably
CDISC's Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM), the Clinical Data Acquisition
Standards Harmonization (CDASH) Standard, the Analysis Data Model (ADaM), 
the Standard for the Exchange of Nonclinical Data (SEND) terminology, and Protocol Terminology.

With the December 18, 2015 release, the standalone Questionnaires, Ratings, and 
Scales (QRS) terminology file has been deprecated and its content subsumed into 
the Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM) Terminology. Additionally the CDISC Clinical 
Data Element Glossary has been deprecated and archived.


Contents:
Parent Directory		
ADaM				(directory for ADaM terminology)
Archive				(directory for earlier file versions)
Change Request Tracker.xls	(file containing CDISC change request history)
ControlledTerminologyODM.pdf	(specification for representing controlled terminology in ODM)
Protocol			(directory for Protocol terminology)
ReadMe.txt			(this file)
SDTM				(directory for SDTM which includes the previous QRS terminology)
SEND				(directory for SEND terminology)
schema				(schema for odm.xml format of CDISC terminologies)
xsl				(style sheet for html format of CDISC terminologies)

Background:

Further information is available at:
     http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/terminologyresources/CDISC