95-4961. International Conference on Harmonisation; Guideline on Clinical Safety Data Management: Definitions and Standards for Expedited Reporting; Availability  

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    International Conference on Harmonisation; Guideline on Clinical Safety 
    Data Management; Notice
    
    Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 40 / Wednesday, March 1, 1995 / 
    Notices 
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    DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
    
    Food and Drug Administration
    [Docket No. 93D-0203]
    
    
    International Conference on Harmonisation; Guideline on Clinical 
    Safety Data Management: Definitions and Standards for Expedited 
    Reporting; Availability
    
    AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
    
    ACTION: Notice.
    
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    SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is publishing a final 
    guideline entitled ``Clinical Safety Data Management: Definitions and 
    Standards for Expedited Reporting.'' This guideline was prepared under 
    the auspices of the International Conference on Harmonisation of 
    Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human 
    Use (ICH). The guideline provides standard definitions and terms for 
    key aspects of clinical safety reporting. The guideline also discusses 
    mechanisms for expedited reporting. This guideline is intended to help 
    harmonize methods for gathering and evaluating clinical safety data.
    
    DATES: Effective March 1, 1995. Submit written comments at any time.
    
    ADDRESSES: Submit written comments on the guideline to the Dockets 
    Management Branch (HFA-305), Food and Drug Administration, rm. 1-23, 
    12420 Parklawn Dr., Rockville, MD 20857. Copies of the guideline are 
    available from CDER Executive Secretariat Staff (HFD-8), Center for 
    Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 7500 
    Standish Pl., Rockville, MD 20855.
    
    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
        Regarding the guideline: Murray M. Lumpkin, Center for Drug 
    Evaluation and Research (HFD-2), Food and Drug Administration, 1451 
    Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, 301-594-6740.
        Regarding ICH: Janet J. Showalter, Office of Health Affairs (HFY-
    20), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 
    20857, 301-443-1382.
    
    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In recent years, many important initiatives 
    have been undertaken by regulatory authorities and industry 
    associations to promote international harmonization of regulatory 
    requirements. FDA has participated in many meetings designed to enhance 
    harmonization and is committed to seeking scientifically based 
    harmonized technical procedures for pharmaceutical development. One of 
    the goals of harmonization is to identify and then reduce differences 
    in technical requirements for drug development among regulatory 
    agencies.
        ICH was organized to provide an opportunity for tripartite 
    harmonization initiatives to be developed with input from both 
    regulatory and industry representatives. FDA also seeks input from 
    consumer representatives and others. ICH is concerned with 
    harmonization of technical requirements for the registration of 
    pharmaceutical products among three regions: The European Union, Japan, 
    and the United States. The six ICH sponsors are the European 
    Commission; the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry 
    Associations; the Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare; the Japanese 
    Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; the Centers for Drug 
    Evaluation and Research and Biologics Evaluation and Research, FDA; and 
    the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. The ICH 
    Secretariat, which coordinates the preparation of documentation, is 
    provided by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical 
    Manufacturers Association (IFPMA).
        The ICH Steering Committee includes representatives from each of 
    the ICH sponsors and IFPMA, as well as observers from the World Health 
    Organization, the Canadian Health Protection Branch, and the European 
    Free Trade Area.
        Harmonization of clinical safety data management was selected as a 
    priority topic during the early stages of the ICH initiative. In the 
    Federal Register of July 9, 1993 (58 FR 37408), FDA published a draft 
    tripartite guideline entitled, ``Clinical Safety Data Management: 
    Definitions and Standards for Expedited Reporting.'' The notice gave 
    interested persons an opportunity to submit comments by August 9, 1993.
        After consideration of the comments received and revisions to the 
    guideline, a final draft of the guideline was submitted to the ICH 
    Steering Committee and endorsed by the three participating regulatory 
    agencies at the ICH meeting held in October 1994.
        The guideline defines basic terms, such as ``adverse event,'' 
    ``adverse drug reaction,'' and ``unexpected adverse drug reaction.'' 
    The guideline also provides guidance on determining whether an adverse 
    drug reaction is ``expected,'' and contains standards for expedited 
    reporting, describing what information should be reported, recommending 
    reporting timeframes and the use of the CIOMS-I form for reporting 
    information or, alternatively, suggesting that basic information or 
    data elements be used. The guideline also discusses: Whether and when 
    the blind should be broken for a patient; reporting reactions 
    associated with comparison drug or placebo treatments; products with 
    more than one dosage form, route of administration, or use; and adverse 
    events that occur after the patient has completed the clinical study.
        In the past, guidelines have generally been issued under 
    Sec. 10.90(b) (21 CFR 10.90(b)), which provides for the use of 
    guidelines to state procedures or standards of general applicability 
    that are not legal requirements but are acceptable to FDA. The agency 
    is now in the process of revising Sec. 10.90(b). Therefore, this 
    guideline is not being issued under the authority of Sec. 10.90(b), and 
    it does not create or confer any rights, privileges, or benefits for or 
    on any person, nor does it operate to bind FDA in any way.
        As with all of FDA's guidelines, the public is encouraged to submit 
    written comments with new data or other new information pertinent to 
    this guideline. The comments in the docket will be periodically 
    reviewed, and, where appropriate, the guideline will be amended. The 
    public will be notified of any such amendments through a notice in the 
    Federal Register.
        Interested persons may, at any time, submit written comments on the 
    guideline to the Dockets Management Branch (address above). Two copies 
    of any comments are to be submitted, except that individuals may submit 
    one copy. Comments are to be identified with the docket number found in 
    brackets in the heading of this document. The guideline and received 
    comments may be seen in the office above between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., 
    Monday through Friday.
        The text of the guideline follows:
    
    Clinical Safety Data Management: Definitions and Standards for 
    Expedited Reporting
    
    I. Introduction
    
        It is important to harmonize the way to gather and, if 
    necessary, to take action on important clinical safety information 
    arising during clinical development. Thus, agreed definitions and 
    terminology, as well as procedures, will ensure uniform Good 
    Clinical Practice standards in this area. The initiatives already 
    undertaken for marketed medicines through the CIOMS-1 and CIOMS-2 
    Working Groups on expedited (alert) reports and periodic safety 
    update reporting, respectively, are important precedents and models. 
    However, there are special circumstances involving medicinal 
    products under development, especially in the early stages and 
    before any marketing [[Page 11285]] experience is available. 
    Conversely, it must be recognized that a medicinal product will be 
    under various stages of development and/or marketing in different 
    countries, and safety data from marketing experience will ordinarily 
    be of interest to regulators in countries where the medicinal 
    product is still under investigational only (Phase 1, 2, or 3) 
    status. For this reason, it is both practical and well-advised to 
    regard premarketing and postmarketing clinical safety reporting 
    concepts and practices as interdependent, while recognizing that 
    responsibility for clinical safety within regulatory bodies and 
    companies may reside with different departments, depending on the 
    status of the product (investigational versus marketed).
        There are two issues within the broad subject of clinical safety 
    data management that are appropriate for harmonization at this time:
        (1) The development of standard definitions and terminology for 
    key aspects of clinical safety reporting, and
        (2) The appropriate mechanism for handling expedited (rapid) 
    reporting, in the investigational (i.e., preapproval) phase.
        The provisions of this guideline should be used in conjunction 
    with other ICH Good Clinical Practice guidelines.
    
    II. Definitions and Terminology Associated with Clinical Safety 
    Experience
    
    A. Basic Terms
    
        Definitions for the terms adverse event (or experience), adverse 
    reaction, and unexpected adverse reaction have previously been 
    agreed to by consensus of the more than 30 Collaborating Centers of 
    the WHO International Drug Monitoring Centre (Uppsala, Sweden). 
    (Edwards, I. R., et al., ``Harmonisation in Pharmacovigilance,'' 
    Drug Safety, 10(2): 93-102, 1994.) Although those definitions can 
    pertain to situations involving clinical investigations, some minor 
    modifications are necessary, especially to accommodate the 
    preapproval, development environment.
        The following definitions, with input from the WHO Collaborative 
    Centre, have been agreed.
        1. Adverse Event (or Adverse Experience).
        Any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical 
    investigation subject administered a pharmaceutical product and 
    which does not necessarily have to have a causal relationship with 
    this treatment.
        An adverse event (AE) can therefore be any unfavorable and 
    unintended sign (including an abnormal laboratory finding, for 
    example), symptom, or disease temporally associated with the use of 
    a medicinal product, whether or not considered related to the 
    medicinal product.
        2. Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR).
        In the preapproval clinical experience with a new medicinal 
    product or its new usages, particularly as the therapeutic dose(s) 
    may not be established:
        All noxious and unintended responses to a medicinal product 
    related to any dose should be considered adverse drug reactions.
        The phrase ``responses to medicinal products'' means that a 
    causal relationship between a medicinal product and an adverse event 
    is at least a reasonable possibility, i.e., the relationship cannot 
    be ruled out.
        Regarding marketed medicinal products, a well-accepted 
    definition of an adverse drug reaction in the postmarketing setting 
    is found in WHO Technical Report 498 (1972) and reads as follows:
        ``A response to a drug which is noxious and unintended and which 
    occurs at doses normally used in man for prophylaxis, diagnosis, or 
    therapy of disease or for modification of physiological function.''
        The old term ``side effect'' has been used in various ways in 
    the past, usually to describe negative (unfavorable) effects, but 
    also positive (favorable) effects. It is recommended that this term 
    no longer be used and particularly should not be regarded as 
    synonymous with adverse event or adverse reaction.
        3. Unexpected Adverse Drug Reaction
        An adverse reaction, the nature or severity of which is not 
    consistent with the applicable product information (e.g., 
    Investigator's Brochure for an unapproved investigational medicinal 
    product). See III. C.
    
    B. Serious Adverse Event Or Adverse Drug Reaction
    
        During clinical investigations, adverse events may occur which, 
    if suspected to be medicinal product-related (adverse drug 
    reactions), might be significant enough to lead to important changes 
    in the way the medicinal product is developed (e.g., change in dose, 
    population, needed monitoring, consent forms). This is particularly 
    true for reactions which, in their most severe forms, threaten life 
    or function. Such reactions should be reported promptly to 
    regulators.
        Therefore, special medical or administrative criteria are needed 
    to define reactions that, either due to their nature (``serious'') 
    or due to the significant, unexpected information they provide, 
    justify expedited reporting.
        To ensure that no confusion or misunderstanding exist of the 
    difference between the terms ``serious'' and ``severe,'' which are 
    not synonymous, the following note of clarification is provided:
        The term ``severe'' is often used to describe the intensity 
    (severity) of a specific event (as in mild, moderate, or severe 
    myocardial infarction); the event itself, however, may be of 
    relatively minor medical significance (such as severe headache). 
    This is not the same as ``serious,'' which is based on patient/event 
    outcome or action criteria usually associated with events that pose 
    a threat to a patient's life or functioning. Seriousness (not 
    severity) serves as a guide for defining regulatory reporting 
    obligations.
        After reviewing the various regulatory and other definitions in 
    use or under discussion elsewhere, the following definition is 
    believed to encompass the spirit and meaning of them all:
        A serious adverse event (experience) or reaction is any untoward 
    medical occurrence that at any dose:
         Results in death,
         Is life-threatening,
        (NOTE: The term ``life-threatening'' in the definition of 
    ``serious'' refers to an event in which the patient was at risk of 
    death at the time of the event; it does not refer to an event which 
    hypothetically might have caused death if it were more severe.)
         Requires inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of 
    existing hospitalization,
         Results in persistent or significant disability/
    incapacity, or
         Is a congenital anomaly/birth defect.
        Medical and scientific judgment should be exercised in deciding 
    whether expedited reporting is appropriate in other situations, such 
    as important medical events that may not be immediately life-
    threatening or result in death or hospitalization but may jeopardize 
    the patient or may require intervention to prevent one of the other 
    outcomes listed in the definition above. These should also usually 
    be considered serious.
        Examples of such events are intensive treatment in an emergency 
    room or at home for allergic bronchospasm; blood dyscrasias or 
    convulsions that do not result in hospitalization; or development of 
    drug dependency or drug abuse.
    
    C. Expectedness of an Adverse Drug Reaction
    
        The purpose of expedited reporting is to make regulators, 
    investigators, and other appropriate people aware of new, important 
    information on serious reactions. Therefore, such reporting will 
    generally involve events previously unobserved or undocumented, and 
    a guideline is needed on how to define an event as ``unexpected'' or 
    ``expected'' (expected/unexpected from the perspective of previously 
    observed, not on the basis of what might be anticipated from the 
    pharmacological properties of a medicinal product).
        As stated in the definition (II.A.3.), an ``unexpected'' adverse 
    reaction is one, the nature or severity of which is not consistent 
    with information in the relevant source document(s). Until source 
    documents are amended, expedited reporting is required for 
    additional occurrences of the reaction.
        The following documents or circumstances will be used to 
    determine whether an adverse event/reaction is expected:
        1. For a medicinal product not yet approved for marketing in a 
    country, a company's Investigator's Brochure will serve as the 
    source document in that country. See III.F. and ICH Guideline for 
    the Investigator's Brochure.
        2. Reports which add significant information on specificity or 
    severity of a known, already documented serious ADR constitute 
    unexpected events. For example, an event more specific or more 
    severe than described in the Investigator's Brochure would be 
    considered ``unexpected.'' Specific examples would be (a) acute 
    renal failure as a labeled ADR with a subsequent new report of 
    interstitial nephritis and (b) hepatitis with a first report of 
    fulminant hepatitis.
    
    III. Standards for Expedited Reporting
    
    A. What Should Be Reported?
    
         1. Single Cases of Serious, Unexpected ADR's
        All ADR's that are both serious and unexpected are subject to 
    expedited reporting. This applies to reports from spontaneous 
    sources and from any type of [[Page 11286]] clinical or 
    epidemiological investigation, independent of design or purpose. It 
    also applies to cases not reported directly to a sponsor or 
    manufacturer (for example, those found in regulatory authority 
    generated ADR registries or in publications). The source of a report 
    (investigation, spontaneous, other) should always be specified.
        Expedited reporting of reactions that are serious but expected 
    will ordinarily be inappropriate. Expedited reporting is also 
    inappropriate for serious events from clinical investigations that 
    are considered not related to study product, whether the event is 
    expected or not. Similarly, nonserious adverse reactions, whether 
    expected or not, will ordinarily not be subject to expedited 
    reporting.
        Information obtained by a sponsor or manufacturer on serious, 
    unexpected reports from any source should be submitted on an 
    expedited basis to appropriate regulatory authorities if the minimum 
    criteria for expedited reporting can be met. See section III.B.
        Causality assessment is required for clinical investigation 
    cases. All cases judged by either the reporting health care 
    professional or the sponsor as having a reasonable suspected causal 
    relationship to the medicinal product qualify as ADR's. For purposes 
    of reporting, adverse event reports associated with marketed drugs 
    (spontaneous reports) usually imply causality.
        Many terms and scales are in use to describe the degree of 
    causality (attributability) between a medicinal product and an 
    event, such as certainly, definitely, probably, possibly, or likely 
    related or not related. Phrases such as ``plausible relationship,'' 
    ``suspected causality,'' or ``causal relationship cannot be ruled 
    out'' are also invoked to describe cause and effect. However, there 
    is currently no standard international nomenclature. The expression 
    ``reasonable causal relationship'' is meant to convey in general 
    that there are facts (evidence) or arguments to suggest a causal 
    relationship.
        2. Other Observations
        There are situations in addition to single case reports of 
    ``serious'' adverse events or reactions that may necessitate rapid 
    communication to regulatory authorities; appropriate medical and 
    scientific judgment should be applied for each situation. In 
    general, information that might materially influence the benefit-
    risk assessment of a medicinal product or that would be sufficient 
    to consider changes in medicinal product administration or in the 
    overall conduct of a clinical investigation represents such 
    situations. Examples include:
        a. For an ``expected, serious ADR, an increase in the rate of 
    occurrence which is judged to be clinically important.
        b. A significant hazard to the patient population, such as lack 
    of efficacy with a medicinal product used in treating life-
    threatening disease.
        c. A major safety finding from a newly completed animal study 
    (such as carcinogenicity).
    
    B. Reporting Time Frames
    
        1. Fatal Or Life-Threatening Unexpected ADR's
        Certain ADR's may be sufficiently alarming so as to require very 
    rapid notification to regulators in countries where the medicinal 
    product or indication, formulation, or population for the medicinal 
    product are still not approved for marketing, because such reports 
    may lead to consideration of suspension of, or other limitations to, 
    a clinical investigation program. Fatal or life-threatening, 
    unexpected ADR's occurring in clinical investigations qualify for 
    very rapid reporting. Regulatory agencies should be notified (e.g., 
    by telephone, facsimile transmission, or in writing) as soon as 
    possible but no later than 7 calendar days after first knowledge by 
    the sponsor that a case qualifies, followed by as complete a report 
    as possible within 8 additional calendar days. This report should 
    include an assessment of the importance and implication of the 
    findings, including relevant previous experience with the same or 
    similar medicinal products.
        2. All Other Serious, Unexpected ADR's
        Serious, unexpected reactions (ADR's) that are not fatal or 
    life-threatening should be filed as soon as possible but no later 
    than 15 calendar days after first knowledge by the sponsor that the 
    case meets the minimum criteria for expedited reporting.
        3. Minimum Criteria for Reporting
        Information for final description and evaluation of a case 
    report may not be available within the required timeframes for 
    reporting outlined above. Nevertheless, for regulatory purposes, 
    initial reports should be submitted within the prescribed time as 
    long as the following minimum criteria are met: An identifiable 
    patient; a suspect medicinal product; an identifiable reporting 
    source; and an event or outcome that can be identified as serious 
    and unexpected, and for which, in clinical investigation cases, 
    there is a reasonable suspected causal relationship. Followup 
    information should be actively sought and submitted as it becomes 
    available.
    
    C. How To Report
    
        The CIOMS-I form has been a widely accepted standard for 
    expedited adverse event reporting. However, no matter what the form 
    or format used, it is important that certain basic information/data 
    elements, when available, be included with any expedited report, 
    whether in a tabular or narrative presentation. The listing in 
    Attachment 1 addresses those data elements regarded as desirable; if 
    all are not available at the time of expedited reporting, efforts 
    should be made to obtain them. See III.B.
        All reports must be sent to those regulators or other official 
    parties requiring them (as appropriate for the local situation) in 
    countries where the drug is under development.
    
    D. Managing Blinded Therapy Cases
    
        When the sponsor and investigator are blinded to individual 
    patient treatment (as in a double-blind study), the occurrence of a 
    serious event requires a decision on whether to open (break) the 
    code for the specific patient. If the investigator breaks the blind, 
    then it is assumed the sponsor will also know the assigned treatment 
    for that patient. Although it is advantageous to retain the blind 
    for all patients prior to final study analysis, when a serious 
    adverse reaction is judged reportable on an expedited basis, it is 
    recommended that the blind be broken only for that specific patient 
    by the sponsor even if the investigator has not broken the blind. It 
    is also recommended that, when possible and appropriate, the blind 
    be maintained for those persons, such as biometrics personnel, 
    responsible for analysis and interpretation of results at the 
    study's conclusion.
        There are several disadvantages to maintaining the blind under 
    the circumstances described which outweigh the advantages. By 
    retaining the blind, placebo and comparator (usually a marketed 
    product) cases are filed unnecessarily. When the blind is eventually 
    opened, which may be many weeks or months after reporting to 
    regulators, it must be ensured that company and regulatory data 
    bases are revised. If the event is serious, new, and possibly 
    related to the medicinal product, then if the Investigator's 
    Brochure is updated, notifying relevant parties of the new 
    information in a blinded fashion is inappropriate and possibly 
    misleading. Moreover, breaking the blind for a single patient 
    usually has little or no significant implications for the conduct of 
    the clinical investigation or on the analysis of the final clinical 
    investigation data.
        However, when a fatal or other ``serious'' outcome is the 
    primary efficacy endpoint in a clinical investigation, the integrity 
    of the clinical investigation may be compromised if the blind is 
    broken. Under these and similar circumstances, it may be appropriate 
    to reach agreement with regulatory authorities in advance concerning 
    serious events that would be treated as disease-related and not 
    subject to routine expedited reporting.
    
    E. Miscellaneous Issues
    
        1. Reactions Associated With Active Comparator or Placebo 
    Treatment
         It is the sponsor's responsibility to decide whether active 
    comparator drug reactions should be reported to the other 
    manufacturer and/or directly to appropriate regulatory agencies. 
    Sponsors should report such events to either the manufacturer of the 
    active control or to appropriate regulatory agencies. Events 
    associated with placebo will usually not satisfy the criteria for an 
    ADR and, therefore, for expedited reporting.
        2. Products With More Than One Presentation or Use
        To avoid ambiguities and uncertainties, an ADR that qualifies 
    for expedited reporting with one presentation of a product (e.g., a 
    dosage form, formulation, delivery system) or product use (e.g., for 
    an indication or population) should be reported or referenced to 
    regulatory filings across other product presentations and uses.
        It is not uncommon that more than one dosage form, formulation, 
    or delivery system (oral, IM, IV, topical, etc.) of the 
    pharmacologically active compound(s) is under study or marketed; for 
    these different presentations there may be some marked differences 
    in the clinical safety profile. The same may apply for a given 
    product used in different indications or populations (single dose 
    versus chronic administration, for example). Thus, ``expectedness'' 
    may be [[Page 11287]] product or product-use specific, and separate 
    Investigator's Brochures may be used accordingly. However, such 
    documents are expected to cover ADR information that applies to all 
    affected product presentations and uses. When relevant, separate 
    discussions of pertinent product-specific or use-specific safety 
    information will also be included.
        It is recommended that any adverse drug reactions that qualify 
    for expedited reporting observed with one product dosage form or use 
    be cross referenced to regulatory records for all other dosage forms 
    and uses for that product. This may result in a certain amount of 
    overreporting or unnecessary reporting in obvious situations (for 
    example, a report of phlebitis on IV injection sent to authorities 
    in a country where only an oral dosage form is studied or marketed). 
    However, underreporting is completely avoided.
        3. Poststudy Events
        Although such information is not routinely sought or collected 
    by the sponsor, serious adverse events that occurred after the 
    patient had completed a clinical study (including any protocol 
    required posttreatment followup) will possibly be reported by an 
    investigator to the sponsor. Such cases should be regarded for 
    expedited reporting purposes as though they were study reports. 
    Therefore, a causality assessment and determination of expectedness 
    are needed for a decision on whether or not expedited reporting is 
    required.
    
    F. Informing Investigators and Ethics Committees/Institutional 
    Review Boards of New Safety Information
    
        International standards regarding such communication are 
    discussed within the ICH GCP Guidelines, including the addendum on 
    ``Guideline for the Investigator's Brochure.'' In general, the 
    sponsor of a study should amend the Investigator's Brochure as 
    needed, and in accord with any local regulatory requirements, so as 
    to keep the description of safety information updated.
    
    Attachment 1
    
    Key Data Elements for Inclusion in Expedited Reports of Serious Adverse 
    Drug Reactions
    
         The following list of items has its foundation in several 
    established precedents, including those of CIOMS-I, the WHO 
    International Drug Monitoring Centre, and various regulatory 
    authority forms and guidelines. Some items may not be relevant 
    depending on the circumstances. The minimum information required for 
    expedited reporting purposes is: an identifiable patient, the name 
    of a suspect medicinal product, an identifiable reporting source, 
    and an event or outcome that can be identified as serious and 
    unexpected and for which, in clinical investigation cases, there is 
    a reasonable suspected causal relationship. Attempts should be made 
    to obtain followup information on as many other listed items 
    pertinent to the case.
    
     1. Patient Details:
    
         Initials,
         Other relevant identifier (clinical investigation 
    number, for example),
          Gender,
          Age and/or date of birth,
          Weight,
          Height.
    
     2. Suspected Medicinal Product(s):
    
         Brand name as reported,
          International Nonproprietary Name (INN),
          Batch number,
         Indication(s) for which suspect medicinal product was 
    prescribed or tested,
          Dosage form and strength,
          Daily dose and regimen (specify units--e.g., mg, mL, 
    mg/kg)
          Route of administration,
          Starting date and time of day,
          Stopping date and time, or duration of treatment.
    
     3. Other Treatment(s):
    
         For concomitant medicinal products (including 
    nonprescription/OTC medicinal products) and nonmedicinal product 
    therapies, provide the same information as for the suspected 
    product.
    
     4. Details Of Suspected Adverse Drug Reaction(s)
    
         Full description of reaction(s) including body site and 
    severity, as well as the criterion (or criteria) for regarding the 
    report as serious should be given. In addition to a description of 
    the reported signs and symptoms, whenever possible, attempts should 
    be made to establish a specific diagnosis for the reaction.
         Start date (and time) of onset of reaction,
         Stop date (and time) or duration of reaction,
         Dechallenge and rechallenge information,
         Setting (e.g., hospital, out-patient clinic, home, 
    nursing home),
         Outcome: Information on recovery and any sequelae; what 
    specific tests and/or treatment may have been required and their 
    results; for a fatal outcome, cause of death and a comment on its 
    possible relationship to the suspected reaction should be provided. 
    Any autopsy or other post-mortem findings (including a coroner's 
    report) should also be provided when available. Other information: 
    anything relevant to facilitate assessment of the case, such as 
    medical history, including allergy, drug or alcohol abuse; family 
    history; findings from special investigations.
    
     5. Details on Reporter of Event (Suspected ADR):
    
         Name,
         Address,
         Telephone number,
         Profession (specialty).
    
     6. Administrative and Sponsor/Company Details:
    
         Source of report: was it spontaneous, from a clinical 
    investigation (provide details), from the literature (provide copy), 
    other?
         Date event report was first received by sponsor/
    manufacturer,
         Country in which event occurred,
         Type of report filed to authorities: initial or 
    followup (first, second, etc.).
         Name and address of sponsor/manufacturer/company,
         Name, address, telephone number, and FAX number of 
    contact person in reporting company or institution,
         Identifying regulatory code or number for marketing 
    authorization dossier or clinical investigation process for the 
    suspected product (for example, IND or CTX number, NDA number).
         Sponsor/manufacturer's identification number for the 
    case. (This number should be the same for the initial and followup 
    reports on the same case.)
    
        Dated: February 23, 1995.
    William B. Schultz,
    Deputy Commissioner for Policy.
    [FR Doc. 95-4961 Filed 2-28-95; 8:45 am]
    BILLING CODE 4160-01-F
    
    

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Effective Date:
3/1/1995
Published:
03/01/1995
Department:
Food and Drug Administration
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Document Number:
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Dates:
Effective March 1, 1995. Submit written comments at any time.
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