Vocabulary Words & Definitions Flashcards
Suspected Adverse Reaction
Any AE w/reasonable possibility that the drug caused the AE. For IND safety reporting “reasonable possibility” means there is evidence to suggest a causal relationship.
Unexpected AE or Unexpected Suspected Adverse Reaction
An AE or suspected adverse reaction is “unexpected” if not listed in the IB or not listed at the specificity or severity observed. If an IB is not required or available, then the reaction is unexpected if not consistent with the risk info in the general investigational plan or elsewhere in the current application.
Life-threatening AE or life-threatening suspected adverse reaction
An AE or suspected adverse reaction is considered life-threatening if the investigator or sponsor believes it places the subject at immediate risk of death.
Adverse event (AE)
Any untoward medical occurrence associated with the use of a drug in humans, whether or not considered drug related.
Research
A systematic investigation, including research development, testing, and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalized knowledge.
Does not include:
- Scholarly and journalistic activity
- public health surveillance
- activities for criminal justice purposes authorized by law or court order for criminal justice or criminal investigative purposes
- Authorized operational activities for homeland security, intelligence, defence.
Human Subject
A living individual about whom an investigator conducting research obtains info/biospecimens through intervention or interaction with the subject and obtains/uses/studies/ analyzes/generates private identifiable info or identifiable biospecimens
OHRP
Office of Human Research Protections (Part of the US Department of Health and Human Services) - Oversight body for guidance to IRBs and researchers conducting human subjects research.
Minimal Risk
the probability and magnitude of harm or discomfort anticipated in the research are no greater in and of themselves than those ordinarily encountered in daily life or during the performance of routine physical or psychological examinations or tests (45 CFR 46.102(j))
Clinical Research
A research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions to evaluate the effects of those interventions on biomedical or behavioral health-related outcomes
FWA
Federal Wide Assurance - an organization’s commitment to comply with federal human subjects regulations (45 CFR 46). (Required by the HHS)
Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects
The Common Rule (45 CFR Part 46 A)
Unanticipated Problem
Events that may indicated an increased risk to subjects or other that are not described (type, severity, frequency) in the protocol & related documents, and are possibly related to participation.
(Remember: URG. U = Unexpected, R = possibly Related, G = Greater risk of harm for subjects or others)
Broad Consent
Prospective consent for unspecified future research
Validation of Computer Systems
Defined by ICH E6 (Section 1.65) - Process of establishing and documenting that the specified requirements of a computerized system can be consistently fulfilled from design until decommissioning.
Form 1572
“Statement of Investigator” (for INDs)
NDA
New Drug Application (to the FDA)
Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
A standard for the design, conduct, performance, monitoring, auditing, recording, analyses, and reporting of clinical trials.
Pharmacodynamics
Describe the effects of the agent while in the body.
Pharmacogenomics
The use of genetic information to predict whether a drug will help make a patient well or ill.
Pharmacokinetics
Describes how the agent moves through and is excreted from the body.
Certified Copy
Defined by ICH E6 - A record can only be a certified copy (paper or electronic) if it has been verified or generated through a validated process
ICH
International Council for Harmonization (previously International Conference on Harmonization)
ALCOA-C
Attributable
Legible
Contemporaneous
Original
Accurate
Complete
Sponsor
The entity who takes responsibility for and initiates a clinical investigation. The sponsor is often, but not always, the entity that funds the clinical research.
CBER
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
CDER
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
CDRH
Center for Device and Radiological Health
CTCAE
Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events
Form 482
Notice of Inspection
Certified Copy
A copy of the original record that has been verified to have the same information, including data that describe the context, content, and structure, as the original.
Essential Documents
Documents that collectively permit the evaluation of the conduct of the study and the quality of the data produced. Should be kept for 2 years after the last approval of a marketing application in an ICH region or at least 2 years have elapsed since discontinuation of clinical development, unless required for longer by regulatory requirement or agreement w/sponsor.
Form 1571
Cover sheet for an IND application
Private Information
- information about behavior which occurs in a context in which an individual can reasonably expect that no observation or recording is taking place
- information which has been provided for a specified purpose by an individual and which the individual can reasonably expect will not be made public (e.g. medical record)
Biometric
A method of verifying an individual’s identity based on measurement of the individual’s physical features or repeatable actions where those features and or actions are both unique to that individual and measurable. (21 CFR, Sec. 11.3)
Closed System
An environment in which system access is controlled by persons who are responsible for the content of electronic records that are on the system. (21 CFR, Sec. 11.3)
Digital Signature
An electronic signature based upon cryptographic methods of originator authentication, computed by using a set of rules and a set of parameters such that the identity of the signer and the integrity of the data can be verified. (21 CFR, Sec. 11.3)
More secure than electronic signatures
Electronic Record
Any combination of text, graphics, data, audio, pictorial, or other information representation in digital form that is created, modified, maintained, archived, retrieved or distributed by a computer system. (21 CFR, Sec. 11.3)
Electronic Signature
A computer data compilation of any symbol or series of symbols executed, adopted, or authorized by an individual to be a legally binding equivalent of the handwritten signature. (21 CFR, Sec. 11.3)
Less secure than digital signatures
Open System
An environment in which system access is not controlled by persons who are responsible for the content of the electronic records that are on the system. (21 CFR, Sec. 11.3)
Clinical Investigation
Any experiment that involves a test article and one or more human subjects and that either is subject to requirements for prior submission to the Food and Drug Administration under section 505(i) or 520(g) of the act, or is not subject to requirements for prior submission to the Food and Drug Administration under these sections of the Act, but the results of which are intended to be submitted later to, or held for inspection by, the Food and Drug Administration as part of an application for a research or marketing permit. (21 CFR, sec. 50.3)
Investigator
An individual who actually conducts a clinical investigation, i.e., under whose immediate direction the test article is administered or dispensed to, or used involving, a subject, or, in the event of an investigation conducted by a team of individuals, is the responsible leader of that team. (21 CFR, sec. 50.3)
Sponsor
A person who initiates a clinical investigation but who does not actually conduct the investigation, i.e., the test article is administered or dispensed to, or used involving, a subject under the immediate direction of another individual. A person other than the individual (e.g., corporation or agency) that uses one or more of its own employees to conduct a clinical investigation it has initiated it has initiated is considered to be a sponsor (not a sponsor-investigator), and the employees are considered to be investigators. (21 CFR, sec. 50.3)