This post shows in-depth the role of SAS programmers in clinical trial data analysis.

It outlines the task flow of clinical trial data analysis, discusses project programming planning and documenting procedures, describes SAS programmers’ tasks and programming slides, and provides insight on how to work with people in your team: clinical data managers, statisticians, programmer manager, and project manager.

This provides a valuable overview for programmers who are starting out or plan on being involved with clinical trials, and for data managers and statisticians who work with SAS programmers in a clinical trial team.

It is also a valuable management guideline for experienced SAS programmers.

Introduction

SAS is widely used in clinical trial data analysis in pharmaceutical, biotech and clinical research companies.

SAS programmers play an important role in clinical trial data analysis. In addition to doctors and clinicians who collect clinical trial data, the group conducting data analysis includes statisticians, clinical data managers (COMs), and SAS programmers.

Statisticians provide the ideas and methods of the data analysis, clinical data managers manage the collected data and control the data quality. In between, SAS programmers implement the analysis methods on the collected data and provide the study summary tables, data listing, and graphs to the statisticians and clinicians to write a study report.