Case Report

The case report table lists the cases (by both case number and case identifier) that violated at least one validation rule, the rules that were violated, and the number of times that the rule was violated by the case. The invalid values are shown in the Data Editor.

Figure 2. Data Editor with saved indicators of rule violations

A separate indicator variable is produced for each application of a validation rule. Thus, @0to3Categorical_clotsolv_ is the application of the 0 to 3 Categorical single-variable validation rule to the variable Clot-dissolving drugs. For a given case, the easiest way to figure out which variable's value is invalid is simply to scan the values of the indicators. A value of 1 means that the associated variable's value is invalid.

Figure 3. Data Editor with indicator of rule violation for case 175

Go to case 175, the first case with a rule violation. To speed your search, look at the indicators that are associated with variables in the variable summary table. It is easy to see that History of angina has the invalid value.

Figure 4. Data Editor with invalid value for History of angina

History of angina has a value of –1. While this value is a valid missing value for treatment and result variables in the data file, it is invalid here because the patient history values do not currently have user-missing values defined.