Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Monitoring Essentials for Medical Device Trials

is being presented by Helen Colquhoun, CEO, Pleiad Inc. and airs on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012. For more details, or to register please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Within the past few months, both FDA and ISO have issued updated regulatory guidance relevant to the monitoring of medical device trials. The FDA issued its draft guidance in August 2011, recommending a risk-based approach to monitoring. Meantime, the latest version of the ISO 14155 standard was also issued in 2011. It describes Good Clinical Practice for medical device trials, and it is an international standard, accepted in most countries. It includes guidance on monitoring and, ironically, leans towards a high proportion of on-site monitoring visits to assure data quality.

In this presentation, Dr. Helen Colquhoun provides an overview of the two guidance documents, and shares best practices for monitoring medical device trials. The presentation includes examples of citations in FDA warning letters for failure to monitor medical device studies correctly, in order to identify some common pitfalls during monitoring.