CDISC (Clinical
Data Interchange Standards Consortium) is an organization that develops
industry standards. The standards support the electronic acquisition,
exchange, and archival of clinical trials data and metadata for medical
and biopharmaceutical product development. CDISC defines several data
models for the interoperability of clinical data exchange.
The mission of CDISC
is to develop and support global, platform-independent data standards
that enable information system interoperability to improve medical
research and related areas of health care.
For more information
about CDISC, see the Web site at
www.cdisc.org.
Note: The CDISC mission statement
above is cited from the CDISC Web site. In addition, some explanations
in the CDISC procedure documentation are from the CDISC standards
descriptions.