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Industry Research Finds Two-Thirds of Clinical Data Managers and CRAs Believe Current Inefficiencies Put Data Quality at Future Risk
SCDM 2025 — Two-thirds of data managers and clinical research associates (CRAs) report that inefficiencies in manual data reconciliation, cleaning, and review will put clinical data quality at future risk. The Veeva Clinical Data Industry Research shows the main drivers adding time and effort in executing clinical trials are too many manual steps or data re-entry (68%), inefficient workflows (58%), and using multiple disconnected systems (59%). The findings highlight a need to automate the most
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