1. Data Managers’ Forum Topic: The Data Management Plan (DMP) Tues 19 Jan @ 15:00

2. Did you know? Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines apply to all clinical research conducted in South Africa. Download a copy of SA GCP guidelines here : SA GCP guidelinesSA GCP guidelines

3. Why a data management plan? Administrative Data / Introduction to the study Data Collection Documentation and Metadata Ethics and Legal Compliance Storage and Backup Data Sharing Preservation Responsibilities and Resources

4. Paper source docs Paper CRFData Centre What is the story of your data?

5. Paper source docs Paper CRFeCRFDatabase What is the story of your data?

6. Paper source docs Paper CRFeCRFDatabase What is the story of your data?

7. Or go to http://dmp.lib.uct.ac.za/http://dmp.lib.uct.ac.za/

8. Popular appendices to the DMP Definitions and Acronyms SOP for Data entry SOP for Data Validation Database Specifications Document (incl. Data Dictionary) SOP for Electronic Clinical Data Archiving

9. What should be our next topic? Your thoughts?

10. Also check out: Free online course (MOOC): “Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics”Understanding Clinical Research: Behind the Statistics Libraries website: http://www.lib.uct.ac.za/research-data-managementhttp://www.lib.uct.ac.za/research-data-management Clinical data management systems (CDMS) at UCT: http://intranet.uct.ac.za/CRC/CDMS http://intranet.uct.ac.za/CRC/CDMS