December 22, 2017

The controlled terminology in this spreadsheet represents the CDISC Glossary produced by the CDISC Glossary team, 
which seeks to harmonize definitions, acronyms, abbreviations, and initials of commonly used clinical terms across 
the standards initiatives undertaken by CDISC to support clinical research. The purpose of the CDISC Glossary is to 
serve the community of clinical researchers by selecting and defining terms pertaining to clinical research, particularly 
eClinical investigations, sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry or a federal agency. Additional terminology will be 
developed on an ongoing basis. Future additions to the terminology set will be handled via the CDISC terminology change 
request and maintenance process.


Contents:

Archive                       			(directory for earlier file versions)
CDISC Glossary Publication Date Stamp.txt	information regarding current version date of Protocol terminology
CDISC Glossary Terminology Changes.xls  	detailed description of term changes (Excel)
CDISC Glossary Terminology Changes.txt  	detailed description of term changes (text)
CDISC Glossary Terminology.OWL.zip		terms by codelist, OWL/RDF format
CDISC Glossary Terminology.html			terms by codelist, HTML format
CDISC Glossary Terminology.odm.xml		terms by codelist, ODM XML format
CDISC Glossary Terminology.pdf			terms by codelist, PDF format
CDISC Glossary Terminology.txt          	terms by codelist, text format
CDISC Glossary Terminology.xls          	terms by codelist, Excel format
Glossary CDISC ReadMe.doc         		Copy of Excel ReadMe tab in Word format
ReadMe.txt					(this file)


Background:

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is an international standards development organization 
for clinical research data, and is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a standard electronic 
submission format.  CDISC and NCI work together to develop and maintain CDISC controlled terminologies, which 
are also integrated and distributed as part of NCI Thesaurus (NCIt).

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