Know Your AREA!: Creating Professional SAS Graphics in Clinical Safety Data by Using the AREAS Option in PROC GPLOT

Overview

In monitoring safety data in clinical trials, visual displays of individual patient data over time (i.e. vitals and lab data) are indispensable. This paper will introduce examples of these displays for a Data Safety Monitoring Committee, using the GPLOT procedure in SAS/GRAPH. Specifically, the AREAS option in GPLOT will be used to show how SAS/GRAPH can be employed to produce complex and professional graphics. Examples from safety monitoring data in the clinical trial environment will be drawn.