Research Activity
data management
da·ta man·age·ment
Definitions related to data management:
  • Processes for data acquisition, validation, storage, protection, and processing.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Processes that include acquiring, validating, storing, protecting, and processing data to ensure accessibility, reliability, and timeliness for users.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Storage, manipulation, management, and control of data for specific uses.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Tasks associated with the entry, transfer, and/or preparation of source data and derived items for entry into a clinical trial database. NOTE: Data management could include database creation, data entry, review, coding, data editing, data QC, locking, or archiving; it typically does not include source data capture.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
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