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Planned Composition Relationship
Definition 1
A relationship between a composite activity and the component activities that comprise it, i.e. parent and child activities where all activities are intended to occur at some point in the course of a particular study. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
A relationship between a composite activity and the component activities that comprise it, i.e. parent and child activities where all activities are intended to occur at some point in the course of a particular study. EXAMPLE(S): A battery of tests may be composed of multiple routine labs that are always ordered together as a group. A glucose tolerance test which is comprised of administering glucose and taking multiple timed blood samples which are then tested for glucose. NOTE(S): This class helps represent an AND relationship between siblings with the same parent activity. (NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)