Clinical Data Managers

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Read technical literature and participate in continuing education or professional associations to maintain awareness of current database technology and best practices.
• Prepare appropriate formatting to data sets as requested.
• Evaluate processes and technologies, and suggest revisions to increase productivity and efficiency.
• Develop technical specifications for data management programming and communicate needs to information technology staff.
• Contribute to the compilation, organization, and production of protocols, clinical study reports, regulatory submissions, or other controlled documentation.
• Write work instruction manuals, data capture guidelines, or standard operating procedures.
• Track the flow of work forms, including in-house data flow or electronic forms transfer.
• Train staff on technical procedures or software program usage.
• Supervise the work of data management project staff.
• Prepare data analysis listings and activity, performance, or progress reports.
• Perform quality control audits to ensure accuracy, completeness, or proper usage of clinical systems and data.
• Monitor work productivity or quality to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures.
• Generate data queries, based on validation checks or errors and omissions identified during data entry, to resolve identified problems.
• Design and validate clinical databases, including designing or testing logic checks.
• Confer with end users to define or implement clinical system requirements such as data release formats, delivery schedules, and testing protocols.
• Analyze clinical data using appropriate statistical tools.
• Process clinical data, including receipt, entry, verification, or filing of information.
• Develop project-specific data management plans that address areas such as coding, reporting, or transfer of data, database locks, and work flow processes.
• Design forms for receiving, processing, or tracking data.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Provide support and information to functional areas such as marketing, clinical monitoring, and medical affairs.
• Develop or select specific software programs for various research scenarios.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)