European Medicines Agency - Regulatory - Regulation of medicines

4 - Quality management



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OKIDS - Medicines for Children Research Organization Austria

Documented adherence to GCP guideline Yes OKIDS provides GCP training for clinical trial teams and hence is compeltly aware and compliant with GCP requirements
Documented adherence to the ethical considerations for clinical trials in children Yes OKIDS trials as any other pediatric trial in Austria needs to seek ethical approval for planned studies in vulnerbale minors. Trials with drug developement aspects accordingly need to follow the legal process alraedy in place in Austria and need to be submitted as well to the competant authorities of Austria
Documented adherence to ethical considerations Yes OKIDS declares that approval by an independent ethics committee with paediatric expertise for all studies is conducted and a standard process in Austria
Availability of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) Yes www.okids-net.at ( intranet - closed area for OKIDS personell)
Capacity to monitor studies
(academic trials industry sponsored trials)
Yes The OKIDS network may provide monitoring activities on demand for academic trials ( trained monitores available at sites)
Capacity to monitor performance of collaborating centres Yes OKIDS has alraedy started the process to monitor collaborative site activities
Quality control and quality assurance, raceability and data safety Yes SOPs assure the internal quality control processes during clinical trial mangement ; respective clinical trial data bases are under academic sponsors governance at the respective sites and are not under the direct responsibility of the OKIDS network;