RT Book, Section
A1 Portney, Leslie G.
A1 Watkins, Mary P.
SR Print(0)
ID 1138253675
T1 Data Management
T2 Foundations of Clinical Research: Applications to Practice, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780803646575
LK fadavispt.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1138253675
RD 2024/04/24
AB An  important  part  of  the  research  planning  process  is  the  development  of  a  data  management  plan  that  specifies  how  data  will  be  recorded,  organized,  reduced  and  analyzed.  This  plan  begins  with  the  research  proposal,  specifying  the  research  question,  hypotheses  and  design.  Before  any  data  are  collected,  the  researcher  must  be  able  to  identify  what  variables  will  be  measured,  using  what  instruments  and  units  of  measurement.  Those  who  will  collect  data  may  need  to  be  trained  and  reliability  assessments  done.  Undoubtedly,  some  of  these  plans  will  change  once  the  project  has  begun,  but  nothing  should  begin  without  a  firm  plan  in  place.  This  planning  requires  knowledge  of  data  coding  and  format  requirements,  statistics  and  computers.  The  purpose  of  this  chapter  is  to  describe  procedures  for  setting  up  data  to  be  entered  into  a  computer  and  analyzed  with  statistical  programs.