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 2024/11/09 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.