Book excerpt: "The Fundamentals of Clinical Data Management" is a manual for Sponsors, CROs, Investigators, Clinical Trial Monitors and Managers and Clinical Research Professionals to learn the basic concepts of Clinical Data Management. This book will focus on the topic which includes: Clinical Information Flow, Roles and Responsibilities of CDM Personnel, Guidelines Associated with CDM, Data Management Plan, CRF Designing, Data Collection, Cleaning and Data Validation, Study setup and Database Designing, Laboratory Data and Adverse Event Data Management, Report Creation and Data Closure, Data Archiving, Privacy and Security etc.