What information does SDTM.PR (Procedures) contain?

• PR domain of SDTM belongs to interventions observation class
• Interventions observation class is designed to capture the investigational, therapeutic, and other treatments that are administered to the subject
• PR domains captures interventional activity intended to have diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, or palliative effects
• Some interventions that get classified as 'procedures' are
  • Disease screening (mammogram, pap smear)
  • Endoscopic examinations (laparoscopy, colonoscopy etc)
  • Diagnostic tests (X-RAY, CT scan, MRI scan, biopsy, catheterization etc)
  • Therapeutic procedures (radiotherapy, phototherapy, mechanical ventilation etc)
  • Surgical procedures
• This domain is intended only to capture the occurrence of the procedure and all the measurements collected from the procedure are collected in a relevant findings domain
• When only findings from a procedure are collected in a study (and information related to timing or occurrence of procedure is not collcted), then findings domain is sufficient and method of examination can be captured in --METHOD variable of the findings domain