Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium

Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is a non-profit organization, whose mission is "to develop and support global, platform-independent data standards that enable information system interoperability to improve medical research and related areas of healthcare". Their main project, the described data standard, bears the same name. It is written in XML Schema and alternatively as a legacy Document Type Definition.

CDISC standards

 * Study Data Tabulation Model (SDTM)
 * Standard for the Exchange of Non-Clinical Data (SEND)
 * Operational Data Model (ODM)
 * Laboratory Data Model (LAB)
 * Case Report Tabulation Data Definition Specification (CRT-DDS)