Hi,
I'll be glad to reply to your question and explain this:
First, I agree with you, I am quite aware that date presented in Table 2 cannot be of any use for further data analysis neither they give additional information compared to Table 1, BUT I usually need to give a summary to clinical data mangers and clinical coordinators and for them Table 1 data can be very "bulky" and difficult to handle and here is why: For example, imagine that we have patients Pat1, Pat2, Pat3..., and that each of them has Visit01 - Visit10, and within each visit exactly the same questions they need to answer with simple Yes or No, and that data managers/clinical coordinators want to see during what visits they answered Yes and during what visits they answered No (maybe they are supposed to answer all visits in certain way but, got some reason, clinical coordinators mistakenly entered No... who knows... not to go into details). So data managers/clinical coordinators, in first table, they would have to deal with maybe 300 entries (lets say 30 patients each with 10 visits) and they may find that very cumbersome, while in the Table 2 they are going to have 30 patients where they are going to be able to easily spot any patient that has the same question answered or recorded differently then expected. This is simplified explanation, the number of patients can be much higher, as well as number of questions... but I didn't want to go into too many details and make my original question even more complicated as this was all I wanted to find out, then I'll go over it and apply the method further. Please let me know if you have any additional question or if my question became to messy. Thank you so much for your time.
All the best!
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