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Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM)
www.scdm.org

Mission: The mission of SCDM is promoting Clinical Data Management excellence.

The Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) is a non-profit professional society founded to advance the discipline of Clinical Data Management. The binding interest of all members is quality clinical data management practices.

Members: SCDM has approximately 1,350 members in various positions within pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, CRO's and private consultancy. Clinical Data Management is a key component of the development of new medications, medical procedures and devices. Clinical Data Management professionals are:

  • Committed to following the laws and guidelines applicable to clinical research (including the Declaration of Helsinki), to participate in the protection of the safety, dignity and well being of patients and to maintain the confidentiality of medical records.

  • Committed to creating, maintaining and presenting quality clinical data, thus supporting accurate and timely statistical analysis, and to adhering to applicable standards of quality and truthfulness in scientific research.

  • Committed to facilitating communication between clinical data management professionals and all other clinical research professionals, to maintaining competency in all areas of clinical data management, to keeping current with technological advances, and to ensuring the dissemination of information to members of the clinical research team.

  • Committed to working as an integral member of a clinical research team with honesty, integrity and respect. To making and communicating accountability for clinical data management decisions and actions within the clinical trial process.

  • Committed to maintaining and respecting proprietary knowledge at all levels, to avoiding the use of proprietary knowledge for personal gain, and to disclosing any conflict of interest. To avoiding any conduct or behavior that is unlawful, unethical or that may otherwise reflect negatively on the profession of clinical data management.

  • Committed to advancing the profession of clinical data management through the development, distribution and improvement of good clinical data management practices. To aiding the professional development and advancement of colleagues within the clinical trial industry.

EDI client since: 2003