Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

vend date

English answer:

the date of the last visit ("visit end date")

Added to glossary by Natalie
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English term

vend date

English Medical Medical (general) Clinical trial
The text concerns registration of patients for partisipation in a clinical trial. Here is the paragraph where this phrase is encountered:


Once a Patient has been logged as Treatment Complete, Enrolment Failure or Early Withdrawal, no further transactions – except Emergency Unblinding – are allowed for this patient.
Please note that the Termination Date corresponds to the date the Patient stops participating in the study and/or the ***Vend date***.

Any ideas are highly appreciated!

Discussion

Natalie (asker) Jul 7, 2006:
Hi all! The client replied that "VEND date" means "visit end date". Who could guess...
Thanks a lot for all the ideas! I am sorry but I have to just close the question...
Anna Maria Augustine (X) Jul 6, 2006:
I agree with Sue.
Dr Sue Levy (X) Jul 6, 2006:
Natalie, it's probably just been copied and pasted, repeating the error. In any case, when you submit a protocol for a clinical trial, you have to specify an end date. "Vend date" is meaningless in this context. Good luck!
Natalie (asker) Jul 6, 2006:
Sue, I have here something like this:

Please provide the following information:
...
4) The Patient’s Termination Date
5) The Termination Reason
(Please Choose ‘Treatment Complete’ or ‘Enrolment Failure or Early Withdrawal’)

If ‘Enrolment Failure or Early Withdrawal’ correspond to the date the Patient stops participating in the study, then ‘Treatment Complete’ should correspond to the "End date", right?

Well, I have just opened the second of the two manuals which I have to translate, and this sentence is exactly the same there, with this 'Vend date' again. I have sent a request to the client, but the answer will be only tomorrow.
Natalie (asker) Jul 6, 2006:
2 Clauwolf: you misunderstood me; I wanted to say that investigators are allowed to publish the results of a clinical trial, but this does not affect the participants as the trial is blinded and therefore publication does not mean the termination of the treatment; moreover, if publication of the results would lead to termination of the treatment then no publications would be allowed before the end of the study
Dr Sue Levy (X) Jul 6, 2006:
Clauwolf Jul 6, 2006:
See, if the patient does not stop participating in the study, it is stated/defined that the Termination Date is the "Vend Date". So, we are right kohany!
Natalie (asker) Jul 6, 2006:
I just wanted to say that date of publication was my idea, too, but on the second thought I understood that publication of the clinical trial results by no means affects any patient
Natalie (asker) Jul 6, 2006:
Oops - sorry!!! Must be some bug: I wanted to add a note to the answerer but the answer was graded instead! I'll ungrade it - sorry once again, it wansn't my intention.

Responses

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It means to sell so...

my guess is that they mean the date on which the medication in the clinical trial goes on sale OR the "patient" is being paid to do this clinical trial, and then it is the date that the drug company or the clinic stops paying the "patient" to participate in the trial.

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termination time of the clinical trial(?)

Can it perhaps be the termination time of the clinical trial(?)

Peer comment(s):

agree Dr Sue Levy (X) : end date - what else could it be? :-)
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date of publication

:)

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Note added at 1 hr (2006-07-06 21:20:11 GMT)
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Obviously the "end of the study" is different from the "end of treatment". The point is very clear here. "Vend date" is the date of publication.

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Note added at 1 hr (2006-07-06 21:23:16 GMT)
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No probably's, perhaps's ou maybe's :)))
Peer comment(s):

agree Suzanne Blangsted (X) : yes indeed, publication of the trial results
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thanks
agree Alfa Trans (X)
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neutral Dr Sue Levy (X) : but why "vend"? what has that to do with publication?
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Could it be a typo for "Vent Date"?

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I made a mistake typing it into my dictionary and came up with a variation that seems to apply to medical trials, so...
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11 hrs

(date of) end of (data) validation

I'm being very speculative here but have two points to make to support my answer:

a) (Data) validation is a process that has to occur, by necessity, before the end of any trial/study.

b) I strongly suspect that the "end" in Vend should have been written as a subscript (so that "Vend" would in fact be something like a mathematical symbol).

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Note added at 11 hrs (2006-07-07 07:33:10 GMT)
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That said, it'll probably best to check with the client (from your added note, I take it that you've already sent a related request).
Peer comment(s):

agree MMUlr : with your suggestion b) - must be a sort of acronym, symbol ....
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Date of final monetary settlement

The patients are perhaps being paid to take part in the trials, and the vend date could be date of final settlements after withdrawing from the program.
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