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Let ODS in SASŪ V8 Help to Speed Up Your Electronic Clinical Study Report (e-CSR)
Jim J Wang, Medpace LLC
Sherry L Pinell, Medpace LLC
Tikiri B. Karunasundera, Medpace LLC

An electronic clinical study report (e-CSR) contains in-text tables within the body of the report, and also post-text results (tables, figures, listings) as its supplements. It is a common practice to create in-text table shells in MS WORD, and then keypu nch in the numbers based upon the post-text results, which is time-consuming and vulnerable to human errors. Prior to the birth of SAS Output Delivery System (ODS), all the post-text results had to be in the ASCII format, which led to another tedious task of converting ASCII files to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. This paper will present how ODS may help to speed up the generation of your e-CSR by delivering PDF and/or Rich Text Format (RTF) post-text results without any format conversion pro cesses. Most of all, the RTF post-text tables from ODS can be either directly used as or easily transformed into in-text tables in the e-CSR.