Backpacking Your Way Through CDISC: A Budget-Minded Guide to Basic Concepts and Implementation

By now, most people who work in the health sciences industry have at least heard the CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) acronym, but there is still a widely varying level of understanding of its concepts and with compliance among many in the field. Numerous helpful resources are available for CDISC training and implementation. However, many of these options can be costly for companies who want to work towards compliance but are not ready to make a large up-front investment. This paper offers some tips for how to approach the journey toward CDISC compliance without having to break the bank. Primary among these is that if you are a current SAS ® user you may already have many of the supplies you need. To prepare readers for the trip, the authors will introduce the components of CDISC standards while mapping out a plan for implementing the models using SAS and other tools already available within most clinical organizations. Then