GUIDANCE DOCUMENT
Electronic Source Data in Clinical Investigations Guidance for Industry September 2013
- Docket Number:
- FDA-2010-D-0643
- Issued by:
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Guidance Issuing OfficeCenter for Drug Evaluation and ResearchCenter for Devices and Radiological HealthCenter for Biologics Evaluation and Research
This guidance provides recommendations to sponsors, Contract Research Organizations (CROs), clinical investigators, and others involved in the capture, review, and retention of electronic source data in FDA-regulated clinical investigations. In an effort to streamline and modernize clinical investigations this guidance promotes capturing source data in electronic form, and it is intended to assist in ensuring the reliability, quality, integrity, and traceability of data from electronic source to electronic regulatory submission.
This guidance addresses source data in clinical investigations used to fill the predefined fields in an electronic case report form (eCRF), according to the protocol. The guidance discusses the following topics related to electronic source data:
- Identification and specification of authorized source data originators
- Creation of data element identifiers to facilitate examination of the audit trail by sponsors, FDA, and other authorized parties
- Ways to capture source data into the eCRF using either manual or electronic methods
- Clinical investigator(s) responsibilities with respect to reviewing and retaining electronic data
- Use and description of computerized systems in clinical investigations
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