
Overview of the study
- Provide an overview of the study including background, objectives, study design, duration of the study, subject population, and number of subjects enrolled.
- What responsibilities are delegated to other members of study team?
- How are potential subjects identified?
- Who screens and recruits subjects?
- Were all methods and materials used for recruitment IRB approved?
- Who verifies inclusion and exclusion criteria?
- Who obtains consent/assent?
- Was written documentation of consent required?
- Is the informed consent process documented in the medical record?
- Was assent required? (Include age of assent)
- Were there any research participants who were wards of the state?
- How are screening/enrollment logs used and maintained during the conduct of the study?
- Where were study procedures conducted? (e.g., inpatient or outpatient)
- What are the study start and/or completion dates?
- How do you communicate protocol or study design changes to study staff, pharmacy, and/or ancillary department staff?
- How do you obtain, record, secure, and retain data?
- What do you use as source documentation (study specific source documents, separate research chart, shadow chart, CRFs, lab data, imaging or diagnostic data)?
- Do you use electronic records?
- How are records validated?
- Do you use electronic signatures?
- What are the data security/controls?
- Is there an inspection trail?
- Was data transferred or transmitted outside the institution?
- What is your record retention policy?
- Were there any protocol deviations or exemptions?
- Who is responsible for receipt, distribution, administration and accountability of test articles?
- Who are the investigational pharmacists?
- How is the test article stored?
- Describe procedures for destruction and/or return of the test article.
- Where and how are specimens stored?
- Describe your procedure for maintaining and documenting storage of specimens.
- Describe maintenance of temperature logs and how you deal with temperature excursions, including:
- Frequency of temperature monitoring (manual check or electronic monitoring)
- Frequency of quality control checks
- Was the study routinely monitored?
- Documentation of monitoring communications and evaluations
- Frequency of monitoring
- Was the study team satisfied with overall monitoring of the study?
- Did study team receive study-specific training?
- Documentation of training
- Study team training, pharmacy
- Did any unanticipated problems occur (AEs, SAEs or deaths)?
- Were events reported to the IRB, Sponsor, IRB, regulatory agency in a timely manner?
- Were the event related to the test article?
- Did the subject require any intervention/treatment as the result of the event?
- What was the intervention/treatment?
- Are there any study specific standard operating procedures (SOPs) for this study?
- Is the study registered with Clinicaltrials.gov or equivalent registry?