Data management practices

Automated Laboratory Standards Current Automated Laboratory Data Management Practices, Final. June 1990. 

Office of Information Resources Management. Survey of Laboratory Automated Data Management Practices. Research Triangle Park, NC U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1989. 

Impact of Regulations on Data Management Practice, Randy Levin, MD, DIA Twelfth Annual European Clinical Data Management Conference, November 5,2002 (Posted November 14,2002)... 

Society of Clinical Data Management. 2005. Good Clinical Data Management Practices. 4th edition. Milwaukee (USA). Accessed January 1, 2006, at http //www.scdm.org. 

Kropsu-Vehkapera H., Haapasalo H., Harkonen J., SUvola R., 2009, Product Data Management Practices in High Tech Companies, Industrial Management Data... 

In this book we have decided to concentrate on purely synthetic applications of ionic liquids, just to keep the amount of material to a manageable level. FFowever, we think that synthetic and non-synthetic applications (and the people doing research in these areas) should not be treated separately for a number of reasons. Each area can profit from developments made in the other field, especially concerning the availability of physicochemical data and practical experience of development of technical processes using ionic liquids. In fact, in all production-scale chemical reactions some typically non-synthetic aspects (such as the heat capacity of the ionic liquid or product extraction from the ionic catalyst layer) have to be considered anyway. The most important reason for close collaboration by synthetic and non-synthetic scientists in the field of ionic liquid research is, however, the fact that in both areas an increase in the understanding of the ionic liquid material is the key factor for successful future development. 

Generation of data on the nutrient content of agricultural products and foods forms the basis for estimating nutrient intakes of populations via dietary surveys, nutritional labelling for consumer protection, nutrition education for consumer food choice, home and institution menu planning and food purchase, and for research in nutrient requirements and metabolism, toxicant chemical composition is used to assess effects of farm management practices, crop culture, and food processing on chemical content and implications for human health. 

In this example, it is known from non-database sources that at study termination, subject 101-1002 died. That information is hardcoded into the program and overrides the information coming from the clinical data management system. Here are two reasons why hardcoding is a bad practice ... 

The Association for Clinical Data Management (ACDM) and Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI) publish an excellent document called Computer Systems Validation in Clinical Research A Practical Guide, which can be found at http //www.cr-csv.org/. 

Although this section does not present historical information regarding TRI chemical releases over time, note that, in general, toxic chemical releases have been declining.13 Although onsite releases have decreased, the total amount of reported toxic waste has not declined because the amount of toxic chemicals transferred offsite has increased. Better management practices have led to increases in offsite transfers of toxic chemicals for recycling. More detailed information can be obtained from U.S. EPA s annual Toxics Release Inventory Public Data Release book, or directly from the Toxic Release Inventory System database. 

By the nature of its interdisciplinary nature, functional genomics is almost invariably a collaborative effort at distinct locations. A practical approach to the data management of such projects that we follow is to localize all data in one server and allow all collaborators to access it remotely, conveniently through a web browser without having to install specialized software. This also allows access by third parties, after public release of the data sets. In fact, these massive data sets cannot be published in the traditional way. One leaves the data out of journal articles and merely indicates there how to access the data directly from this system. Functional genomics is changing even the sociology of science ... 

Good Clinical Practices, Clinical Safety Data Management)... 

The term cause within this section refers to inadequate process safety management practices. The causal information presented is not intended to be considered as root causes no consistent root cause analysis methods were identified within the data. 

Inadequate process safety management practices are often cited as the cause of reactive incidents, as discussed in Section 3.0 (Table 4). Incident data underscore the critical importance of successfully implementing the following key elements throughout the life cycle48 of a manufacturing process ... 

Management Practice 7, Design Documentation, which emphasizes the need to develop and retain process description, chemistry, and reaction data. ... 

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