CLINICAL DATA MANAGEMENT IMPORTANCE IN CLINICAL RESEARCH

Abstract

<p>ABSTRACT<br />Over the last few decades, most of the pharmaceutical companies and research sponsors are facing a lot of challenges in clinical research for their<br />new drug approval. The sponsor research needs a high-quality data report for getting new drug approval from Food and Drug Administration for their<br />medical products. Clinical trial data are important for the drug and medical device development processing pharmaceutical companies to examine<br />and evaluate the efficacy and safety of the new medical product in human volunteers. The results of the clinical trial studies generate the most<br />valuable data and in recent years; there has been massive development in the field of clinical trials. A good clinical data management system reduces<br />the duration of the study and cost of drug development. Further a well-designed case report form (CRF) assists data collection and make facilitates<br />data management and statistical analysis. Nowadays, the electronic data capture (EDC) is very beneficial in data collection. EDC helps to speed up the<br />clinical trial process and reduces the duration, errors and make the work easy in the data management system. This article highlights the importance<br />of data management processes involved in the clinical trial and provides an overview of the clinical trial data management tools. The study concluded<br />that data management tools play a key role in the clinical trial and well-designed CRFs reduces the errors and save the time of the clinical trials and<br />facilitates the drug discovery and development.<br />Keywords: Pharmaceutical, Clinical trial, Clinical data management, Data capture.</p>