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FDA Warning Letters: Don’t Make the Same Mistakes!. Neysa Rhoads, RN, CCRC Preventive Medicine [email protected]. August 22, 2014. “Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes” --Oscar Wilde. What are Good Clinical Practices?. Guidelines for the Investigator - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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FDA Warning Letters: Don’t Make the Same Mistakes!
Neysa Rhoads, RN, CCRC
Preventive [email protected]
April 22, 2023
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“Experience is the name everyone gives to their
mistakes” --Oscar Wilde
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What are Good Clinical Practices?
Guidelines for the Investigator
Guidelines for the Trial Sponsor
Guidelines for the Clinical Trial Protocol
Guidelines for the Investigator’s Brochure
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Fraud
In the broadest sense, a fraud is a deception made for personal gain. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and is also a civil law violation. Many hoaxes are fraudulent, although those not made for personal gain are not technically frauds. Defrauding people of money is presumably the most common type of fraud, but there have also been many fraudulent "discoveries" in art, archaeology, and science.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
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Objectives
Identify different types of misconduct and falsification in research
Discuss causes and consequences of misconduct
Learn from other’s mistakes
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Synonyms for Fraud & Misconduct
Wrong Doing Deception
Felony Malpractice
Unethical Behavior Mischief
Cheating Felony
Unprofessional Swindling
Deceit Crime
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Misconduct
Three categories of misconduct:– Illusion of Knowledge– Surprisingly Sloppy– Malicious Malfeasance
Detecting, Correcting and Preventing
FDA Sanctions
Resources
Woollen, S.W., n.d.
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The Illusion of Knowledge
Lack of understandingMisconduct of the uninformed kind
Examples: Backdating the subject’s signature on a consent form because the subject forgot to date the form, creating source documents from CRF’s, discarding source document after accurate transcription and reporting transcribed data as original.
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Surprisingly Sloppy
Lazy
Inaction, inattention to detail, inadequate staff, lack of supervision
Examples: ICF inadvertently not obtained from subjects, blood pressures rounded to the nearest 10mmHg, data estimated rather than actually measured, protocol ignored or shortcuts taken
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Malicious Malfeasance
Deliberate action to deceive or mislead
F _ _ _ _
Examples: creating, altering, recording, or omitting data
Data does not represent what actually occurred
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Falsification of Data
FDA focus: Falsification of Data– Deliberate or repeated noncompliance can
be considered misconduct and is secondary focus of FDA
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Recognizing Research Misconduct
Research misconduct means falsification of data in proposing, designing, performing, recording, supervising or reviewing research or in reporting research results
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Consequences
Places subjects at possible safety risk
Jeopardizes the reliability of the data
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What Causes Fraud
Study staff that does not have the necessary resources and support to accomplish their tasks
Study staff have unreasonable demands placed upon them
Grand enrollment incentives
Just tell the truth
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“Research for Hire: Second of Two Articles. A
Doctor’s Drug Studies Turned Into Fraud”
New York Times, May 1999
Dr. Robert Fiddes
Reports of Fraud by his staff went unnoticed
June 1996, auditors took notice
Plead guilty to fraud
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“The Emperor Has No Clothes!”
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Do’s and Don’ts
Do– Fill in all blanks– Enter date and times– Make sure information is accurate and matches
throughout the chart– Complete documentation the day of the visit– Write a progress note!– Do the right thing!
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Do’s and Don’ts
– Don’t Cut corners– Don’t Backdate– Don’t use liquid paper or pencil– Don’t re-create– Don’t perform study related procedures
before the ICF is signed
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FDA Sanctions
Warning Letters
Formal Disqualification
Clinical Hold
Voluntary Agreements
Debarment
Prosecution
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Expectations of an Audit
Auditors work on the assumption the records are bogus and the study is a fraudThey are taught to carefully review and evaluate the Labs, ECGs & X-RaysQuestion missing informationLook out for denial and shifting of blameVerify then trust
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FDA Misconduct
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You failed to obtain informed consent of each human subject in accordance with 21 CRF 50
[21 CRF 312.60]
Lab samples drawn prior to signing and dating the ICF
IRB approved ICF required actual time in which legally effective IC was obtained. No documentation of the actual time. Unable to verify subjects signed & dated prior to protocol specific procedures being conducted on them
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You failed to obtain informed consent of each human subject in accordance with 21 CRF 50
[21 CRF 312.60]
ICF not approved by IRB
ICF not signed prior to implanting investigational device
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You failed to obtain informed consent of each human subject in accordance with 21 CRF 50
[21 CRF 312.60]
No written documentation that IC was obtained
IRB approved a 3 page document. Found subjects who were consented with a 1 page ICF and unapproved ICF’s
IRB approved ICF signed after study device was utilized
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You failed to obtain informed consent of each human subject in accordance with 21 CRF 50
[21 CRF 312.60]
Subject signed consent form for incorrect studyConsent not signed until 11 days after study related procedure. Handwritten note states, “I was informed about study and risk-did not sign consent 6-26-03”No documentation that subject was given copy of the signed informed consent
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You failed to obtain informed consent of each human subject in accordance with 21 CRF 50
[21 CRF 312.60]
Prior to any study related procedures being performed, subject was given a copy of the ICF to read. Subject was given the opportunity to have her questions answered and wishes to participate in the TREAT trial. Subject willingly signed consent with witness present and copy of signed consent given to subject for her records. Neysa Rhoads, RN
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Characteristics of Quality Data
Accuracy
Immediacy
Legibility
Durability
Integrity
Consistency
Honesty
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Warning Letter
Most Recent Warning Letters are on the FDA website
Read Them, See What Others Did Wrong
Learn from the Mistakes of Others
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Summary
Knowledge is Power
If it Looks Like a Skunk, Acts like a Skunk and Smells Like a Skunk…… IT’S A SKUNK!!!!
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“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing” --John Powell
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References
www.fda.gov/foi/warning_letters
Wollen, S.W. (2003). Retrieved on 6/13/08 from http://www.fda.gov/oc/gcp/slideshows/2003/gcp2003.ppt
Wollen, S.W. & Hage, A.E. (2001). Retrieved on 6/13/08 from http://www.fda.gov/oc/gcp/slideshows/misconduct2001/misconduct.ppt
Eichenwald, K. & Kolata G. (1999). A doctor’s drug trials turn to fraud. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com