The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has made draft guidance available with updated recommendations for good clinical practices (GCPs), which are intended to modernize the clinical trial design and conduct while maintaining data integrity and participant protection. The draft advice was created to allow for the inclusion of quickly evolving technical and methodological advancements into the clinical trial enterprise and is based on the International Council for Harmonization's (ICH) most recent update to the E6(R3) draft guideline.
Once approved, this draft guideline would replace the March 2018 guidance document E6(R2) Good Clinical Practice: Integrated Addendum to ICH E6(R1) with updated information. They also encourage the use of fit-for-purpose digital health technologies (DHTs), such as wearable sensors, which could facilitate more agile data collection and assist with patient recruitment. The guidelines provided in the draft recommendations aim to improve trial efficiency and maybe hasten the creation of evidence for medicinal goods, in addition to promoting the modernization of trials by
- This strategy emphasizes the application of risk-based and proportional techniques across the clinical trial lifecycle. It encourages researchers to prioritize their efforts by identifying the data and procedures that are most important for participant safety and data integrity. This ensures that researchers are devoting time and energy to gathering and evaluating crucial trial data.
- Sponsors should take the initiative when it comes to quality issues with trials, such as participant protection, the validity of findings, and judgments drawn from them. Early attention to these aspects ensures that trials are planned, preventing delays from needless complications and burdens.
The FDA's draft guidance will be open for public comment for 60 days, and the ICH Expert Working Group will review and consider comments from other ICH member countries before finalizing the ICH guideline.
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