Implementing CDISC Using SAS

Chapter 9: Validating ADaM Data

ADaM’s Published Validation Checks

OpenCDISC Validator

Running the OpenCDISC Validator as a Macro

Traceability Checks

Chapter Summary

This chapter focuses on how to validate your ADaM data. Again, by “validate” we are primarily referring to the concept of compliance checks. The ADaM Validation sub-team has published a list of over 180 validation (or compliance) checks that can be considered ADaM sanctioned “official” checks. There are also additional ADaM checks from OpenCDISC that the OpenCDISC Validator runs. These are not necessarily the same set of checks published by the ADaM team, although there is some overlap.

The last section of this chapter, “Traceability Checks,” introduces a macro that can be used to ...