General Layout

General layout of PIC-SURE search

1. Search bar: Enter a phenotypic variable, study, or table keyword into the search bar to search across studies.

2. Variable Tags: Users can filter the results found through their search by limiting to keywords of interest or excluding keywords that are out of scope. For example, a user could filter to categorical variables, variables containing the term "blood", and/or exclude variables containing the term "pressure".

3. Search Results table: View all variables associated with your search term and/or study & variable tags.

4. Results Panel: Panel with content boxes that describe the cohort based on the variable filters applied to the query.

5. Data Summary: Displays the total number of participants in the filtered cohort which meets the query criteria. When first opening PIC-SURE, the number will be the total number of participants that you can access.

6. Added Variable Filters summary: View all filters which have been applied to the cohort.

7. Filter action: Click on the filter icon to filter cohort participants by specific variable values.

8. Reset button: Allows users to start a new search and query by removing all added filtering and clearing all active study and variable tags.

How are variable tags generated?

Each variable has a set of associated tags, which are generated during the PIC-SURE data loading process. These tags are generated based on information associated with the variable, including the name of the study, study description, dataset name, PIC-SURE data type (continuous or categorical), and variable description. For a search in PIC-SURE, tags associated with a variable are displayed. Note that tags applicable to less than 5% or more than 95% of the search results are not displayed.