Friday, 28 March 2014

FDA Guidance: Design Considerations for Pivotal Clinical Investigations for Medical Devices

Scheduled On : Monday, April 14, 2014 at 1 PM EDT | 10 AM PDT
Duration : 90 Minutes

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Description : 

This webinar introduces FDA’s guidance “Design Considerations for Pivotal Clinical Investigations in Medical Devices” that was published in late 2013. It discusses the regulatory considerations for clinical study design, and delves into the issues of bias and variance that may impact the quality of the data obtained in the study, as well as the interpretation of the data.

Following that, it discusses way that are available to a medical device sponsor, for eliminating bias and variance, both in terms of the study design and the requirements for the personnel that will design and run the studies. Finally, it touches on the study protocol and statistical plan and discusses ways to use those to ensure the success of the study.

In November 2013 the FDA issued the Guidance “Design Considerations for Pivotal Clinical Investigations for Medical Devices” to provide guidance to Industry, Clinical Investigators and Institutional Review Boards, on the study design principles relevant to the development of medical device clinical studies. Even though this guidance is focused on is providing recommendations to sponsors on how to design clinical investigations to support a PMA, sponsors who conduct clinical studies to support pre-market notification (510(k)) and de novo submissions may also rely on the principles in this guidance document.

Each year, insufficient evidence of the safety and effectiveness of a medical device caused from incorrect study design, results in the delay or rejection of either the medical device application or studies conducted towards that application. This is very expensive for the medical device sponsor who has to do additional work or redo existing work. It is also very expensive for the FDA (or other regulatory authorities) who spend the time to review results from incorrectly designed studies.

To mitigate these issues and standardize the way industry design clinical studies, the FDA published the guidance “Design Considerations for Pivotal Clinical Investigations in Medical Devices” in late 2013. The FDA’s goal in publishing this guidance is to help device manufacturers select the appropriate trial design to:

  • Better support and improves the quality of safety & effectiveness data submitted to the agency
  • Lead to timelier FDA approval
  • Speed patients’ access to new devices


Areas Covered in the Session :

      • The Guidance
      • General Principles
      • Some Principles for the Choice of Clinical Study Design
      • Clinical Outcome Studies
      • Diagnostic Clinical Performance Studies
      • Sustaining the Quality of Clinical Studies
      • Summary
      • Q&A
      Who Will Benefit: 

        • Clinical Trial Physician / Doctor
        • Clinical Investigators
        • Regulatory Affairs Management Team
        • Quality Assurance Managers & Directors
        • Clinical Research & Management Team
        • Data Management Team
        • Data Monitoring Managers & Directors
        • Institutional Review Board
        • Biostatisticians

        Speaker Profile
        Angela Bazigos is the CEO of Touchstone Technologies Silicon Valley, Inc. “Your Passport to Compliance”. She has 30 years of experience in the Life sciences industry spanning Project Management, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs and has a patent aimed at speeding up Software Compliance. Ms. Bazigos is the president of PRCSQA (Pacific Regional Chapter of the Society of Quality Assurance) a member of the SQA CVIC (Society of Quality Assurance Computer Validation Initiative Committee), ASQ, DIA and RAPS and consults to Pharma / Biotech / Medical Device companies as well as investment groups on compliance matters, including strategy, submissions, quality assurance and remediations following action by the FDA. She teaches classes on Compliance, 21 CFR 11, Computer Systems Validation, and Project Management both to investor groups and industry. More recently, Ms. Bazigos co-authored Computerized Systems in Clinical Research / Current Data Quality and Data Integrity Concepts with FDA, DIA and Academia. She is on the board for UC Berkeley’s Business School for Executive Education in Life Sciences and on the Stanford Who’s Who Registry for contributions to the Life science industry

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