CLINICAL DATA MANAGEMENT

CLINICAL DATA MANAGEMENT

      Clinical data management is a great opportunity to the medical professionals and also to them who are willing to go the corporate sector wherever he or she doesn't need to have marketing or engineering background. In the second case, he or she need to have the proper knowledge and experience about some software like Oracle, SAS, SPSS etc. It has been reported that a lot of reputed companies such as Zidus, cadila, Cipla, GlaxoSmithKline, TCS, IBM, Accenture etc are found to recruit major candidates for such kind of this job.There are many opportunity like data manager, data programmer, Program data leader, Study data manger. Actually their job is collecting the data from clinical research site and cleaning them and management the accepted data to help achieve the decision of clinical study about investigational products which are helpful to treat the disease or not.

Clinical data management

     Clinical data management (CDM) is a process that manages clinical data to produce a high quality, clean and analyzable database. It is the process of collecting, entering. cleaning and reporting on the data received from clinical trial. Data management involves in aspects of Clinical trial data processing, working with a range of computer application using such software like SPSS, SAS, Oracle and database system to support collection, cleaning and management of subject or patient data.

Importance of clinical data management - 

• To provide  consistent, accurate and valid clinical data.
• To support the accuracy of the final report.
• CDM is a vital vehicle in clinical research to make ensure about the integrity, purity and quality of data being transferred from trial subjects to a database system.