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MHRA Guidance: Building Resilience into Clinical Trials

01/19/2021

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In March 2020, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) of the United Kingdom released a guidance describing best practices for managing clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic. In November 2020, another guidance was issued describing how to minimize disruptions in the conduction and integrity of clinical trials amid the ongoing pandemic. The MHRA published this guidance to help the industry avoid interruptions caused by a persisting health crisis but also to support the applicable use of available flexibilities into routine procedures that better serve trial participants. The MHRA is asking us to build resilience into how we conduct clinical trials. One positive outcome from continuing clinical trials during the pandemic is that it has generated more evidence that remote monitoring using a risk-based approach is feasible and will likely remain a part of clinical trials moving forward.

Should We Treat the Safety Review of COVID-19 Study Participants Differently? UPDATE to FDA’s COVID-19 Clinical Trial Guidance on September 21st

9/22/2020

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As sponsor or CRO monitors are continuing to monitor clinical trial sites remotely for the foreseeable future, additional clarification is needed for how to proceed while protecting subject safety and data integrity. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an updated COVID-19 clinical trial guidance with clarification on the requirements for the investigator to review IND safety reports. The question and answer guidance shows how we must be very careful to not decrease the safety protection checks and balances we have in GCP between stakeholders.

Another UPDATE to Appendix FAQ: FDA’s COVID-19 Clinical Trial Guidance on June 3rd

6/03/2020

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As clinical trials continue but restrictions remain in place, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to receive and compile questions about clinical trials conduct. On June 3rd, the FDA released an updated Q&A section of their COVID-19 clinical trial guidance with three additional questions and answers included.

UPDATE to Appendix FAQ: FDA’s COVID-19 Clinical Trial Guidance

4/17/2020

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The FDA released new topics in the FAQ section of the guidance document for conducting clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapidly changing environment of the crisis has made it challenging to continue conducting and monitoring clinical trials in the traditional manner due to restrictions on travelling, dispensing investigational products, and social gathering. New questions continue to arise as the logistics of monitoring and conducting clinical trials become apparent.

Live Webinar Identifying Workforce Gaps in RBM: August 13

7/30/2019

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Topic: Identifying Workforce Gaps Post Risk-Based Monitoring (RBM): It’s Time to “DIG” in!

Date: August 13, 2019

Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT

Duration: 60 minutes

Sponsored by: Life Science Training Institute

Webinar: Live interactive session. Recording will be available for 30 days.

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