This page provides details on how Vault updates the metrics related to subjects and subject enrollment. For general information about CTMS, see CTMS Overview.
Updating Metrics
Vault updates the metrics for the components on the Study Manager Homepage and CRA Homepage with a few different jobs. The jobs function as follows:
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Job |
Dependencies |
Scheduled Start Time |
Description |
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Update Metrics Job |
Runs when you add a new Subject, remove a Subject, or update a subject’s Study, Study Country, Study Site, Subject Status or, if calculating Date-Based metrics, subject status dates, such as Enrolled Date. Does not run for archived studies. |
Starts 1 hour after the first change to a subject |
Only updates metrics and, if applicable, metrics over time records for areas that you added or changed. For example, if you add an Enrolled Date to a subject, only the Total Enrolled metric/metric over time is updated. This job will also update or create Enrollment Status Logs. Does not update metrics for archived studies. |
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Update Monitored Metrics Job |
Runs when you add a new Monitored Subject, remove a Monitored Subject, or update a Monitored Subject’s Subject Status or if calculating Date-Based metrics, subject Status dates, such as Enrolled Date. |
Starts 5 minutes after the first change to a Monitored subject. |
Vault creates a set of monitored metrics the first time this job runs. Vault keeps monitored metrics in-sync with changes you make to monitored subjects. |
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Recalculate Enrollment Metrics Job |
Runs when you execute the Recalculate Enrollment Metrics user action on a study. |
User Determined |
Recalculates all actual metric values (Actual Total Enrolled, Actual Completed, etc.) on all metrics and, if applicable, metrics over time-related object records at the Study, Study Country, and Site levels. If calculating Date-Based metrics, Vault will also recalculate Enrollment Status Logs. For studies using “Metrics Only” or “Transferred Metrics”, all Metrics values will be reset to zero by this job. |
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Update Metrics (Metrics Only) Job |
Runs when a study has a Metrics Calculation value of Metrics Only |
Starts 1 hour after the first change to a metric |
This job updates metrics changes automatically from study sites to study countries and study countries to study level. It also creates Enrollment Status Log records for days with changes. |