The document discusses the process of clinical trials, including the phases involved from pre-clinical to post-marketing. It describes the goals of each phase from evaluating safety and efficacy on healthy volunteers to large patient groups. Regulatory authorities ensure quality and protect subject rights through establishing legal frameworks. Pharmacists play roles in storage, supply, patient education and conducting research to improve outcomes.
3. CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICES
ASSESSMENT OF SAFETY AND EFFICACY
DESIRED CRITERIAS
DESCRIPTION OF PHASES INVOLVED
REGULATORY AUTHORITIES – IND & NDA
APPLICATION IN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
ROLE OF PHARMACISTS IN CLINICAL TRIALS
CONCLUSION
REFERENCE
4. INTRODUCTION
• A systematic path of pharmaceutical
products on human subjects .
• It discovers or verify the clinical,
pharmacological adverse effects.
• Biomedical and interventions of NEW
CHEMICAL ENTITY(NCE) can be known.
• Safety ,efficacy and effectiveness of the
drug can be evaluated by monitoring
their effects on large group of people.
5. INTRODUCTION
• The similarity in
control groups is
achieved by random
assignment of patients
or volunteers.
• Clinical trials is
preferred to make
health care decisions
and evidence based
medicine to support
clinical and health
policy choices or
issues.
6. GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICES-
PRINCIPLES
• A standard for designing,
conducting , recording and
reporting of studies
involving human subjects.
• Statistical designs of the
protocols ,use of placebo is
required.
• Cross-over study and the
statistical analysis of
clinical data should be
generated.
7. GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE -
GUIDELINES
• Trials be conducted in accordance with the
ethical principles defined in the declaration
of Helsinki.
• A trial should be conducted and continued
if the anticipated benefits justify the risks.
• Trials should be describes in a clear,
detailed protocol.
• The decisions made in the protocol are the
responsibility of a qualified physician or
dentist(as appropriate)
9. MEDICAL REASONS FOR DRUG
DISCONTINUATION
• Lack of efficacy of drug.
• Intolerable adverse
interactions.
• Subject’s condition
deteriorates with time.
• Abnormal laboratory value.
• Didn’t meet the original entry
criteria.
10. ASSESSMENTS OF SAFETY
• Specifications of safety
parameters.
• Methods and periodicity
for assuring and
recording safety
parameters.
• Procedures for eliciting
reports of adverse drug
interactions.
11. ASSESSMENTS OF EFFICACY
• Specification of the
effective parameters to
be used.
• Descriptions of how
effects are measured
and recorded.
• Time and periodicity of
effect recording.
12. CRITERIAS TO PERFORM
• Inclusion and Exclusion criteria are a very
important aspects of clinical research.
• The inclusion and exclusion criteria are
predominantly outlined in protocol to yield the
best results for the research participants.
• It helps the researcher to take the precise decisions
while including the subjects, thereby eventually
impacting the analysis and interpretation of results
in clinical research.
13. INCLUSION CRITERIA
Inclusion criteria provide a
set of principles which may
be summoned up as -
• Inclusion of the patients
widely depends on factors
like:
• The purpose of the study
• Trial Design
• Methodology
• Subject demography-age,
gender, occupation etc.
14. EXCLUSION CRITERIA
The process or the criteria
that excludes certain group
of people to be included in
clinical trial process can be
summoned up as -
• The literature on the basis
of sex/gender, race, and
ethnicity
• Sample Size
• Feasibility of study
• Research Purpose
17. PHASE- 0/PRE CLINICAL PHASE
•First-inhuman trials
conducted in accordance with
the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration’s (FDA)
•Includes the administration
of the study drug to a small
number of subjects (10 to 15)
to gather preliminary data on
the agent's pharmacokinetics
& pharmacodynamics.
18. PHASE- 1 (up to several months)
•Initial safety trials on a new
API.
•An attempt to establish the
dose range tolerated by
volunteers for single and for
multiple doses.
•Normally, a small (15- 100)
group of healthy volunteers.
Sometimes conducted on ill
patients
19. PHASE- 2 (up to 2 years)
•Evaluating efficiency &
safety.
•Starts when phase 1 is
concluded.
•Performed on larger groups
(20-300)
•Phase II studies are
sometimes divided into
Phase IIA and Phase IIB.
20. PHASE- 2A & B
2A-
•Objectives focus on dose-
response, type of patient,
frequency of dosing, or
numerous other
characteristics of safety and
efficacy.
2B-
•Represents the most
rigorous demonstration of
a medicine's efficacy.
21. PHASE- 3 (one to four years)
•Most expensive, time consuming
process, difficult trials to design
and run
•Randomized controlled
multicenter trials on large patient
groups (300–3,000 or more)
•At least two successful Phase III
trials needed in order to obtain
approval from the appropriate
regulatory agencies
22. PHASE- 4 (more than one year)
•Post Marketing Surveillance Trial
•Infinite process
•Surveillance and ongoing technical
support of a drug after it receives
permission to be sold.
•Different formulations medicine
comparisons are evaluated.
23. REGULATORY AUTHORITIES-
IND & NDA
•The role of these authorities is to provide the legal
framework for clinical trials.
•AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION:-
1. Role of Regulating Authorities
2. Role of Government
24. Role of Regulatory Authorities
•Ensuring the quality of the
investigational product
• Ensuring subject rights and
safety during a study
• Educating the parties who
conduct or oversee the study
•Receiving and acting on
complaints about a clinical study
25. Role of Government
Establish a legal framework for GCP
• Protect rights and safety of subjects
• Ensure quality of data, quality of
regulatory decisions and implementation
of quality systems
• Sanctions/ penalties for violators
•Licensure of medical professionals
•Qualifications of clinical investigators/
staff
•Provide mandates to the regulatory
authority
26. Aim of regulatory body
(i) To protect the safety and
rights of the subjects
participating in a trial
(ii) To ensure that trials are
adequately designed to meet
scientifically sound
objectives.
28. Relation between clinical trial &
pharmaceutical industry
Phase Occurring
I Clinical pharmacology: pharmacokinetics
And Pharmacodynamics Measured In
Healthy volunteers
II Exploratory Therapeutic Trials In Small
numbers of closely monitored patients
III Extensive clinical trials on large
numbers of patients
IV Post marketing surveillance-long-term
studies of morbidity/mortality,
multicentre studies to monitor usage
of the drug.
29. ROLE OF PHARMACISTS IN
CLINICAL TRIALS
• We provide the necessary facilities required for proper
storage of IMPs.
• We ensure there is constant supply of IMPs at all times.
• We provide the necessary information to patient regarding
the drug administration.
• We document the review of the patient.
• We often run research projects to improve the outcomes.
• We conduct observational surveys that are aimed at
investigating patients’ or physicians’ perspectives and
attitudes towards medications.
30. CONCLUSION
• Clinical trial study should be clarified with
well defined objectives.
• Statistical analysis of the data should be
generated.
• Clinical Findings of the new drug should
have significant advantage over the
existing therapy
• Their should be a good planning,
organizing skills and appropriate resource
allocation.
31. REFERENCE
• The Pharmacological Basis Of Therapeutics
– Goodman and Gilman,11th edition 2006-
TATA McGRAW HILL, New Delhi, India
• Principles of Clinical Research- Dr. R.B.
Ghool, 2nd edition 2016- NIRALI
PRAKASHAN, Pune, India
• Regulation of Clinical Trials – Rakesh Kumar
Rishi, 1st edition 2007- KONGPOSH
PUBLICATION PVT. LTD. New Delhi, India
• Basic Pharmacology and
Pharmacotherapeutics - Dr. Suresh R.Naik,
1st edition 2017- NIRALI PRAKASHAN, Pune,
India