Clinical Data Managers
Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends.
Also known as: Abstractor, Analyst, Application Analyst, Application Coordinator, Clinical Applications Director, Clinical Biostatistics Director, Clinical Data Abstractor, Clinical Data Analyst, ...
Annual Salary
Median annual wage (May 2024)
Job Outlook
Projected growth, 2024–2034 (Much faster than average)
What You'd Do
- 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.
- Provide support and information to functional areas such as marketing, clinical monitoring, and medical affairs.
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Salary data: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024. Outlook data: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–2034.
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