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Safety distribution

In PV, the Safety Distribution functionality is a simple, centralized solution for preparing and distributing the safety data reports about suspected unexpected serious adverse reactions (SUSARs), serious adverse events (SAEs), and other events of interest to investigators (PIs), clinical research coordinators (CRCs), clinical research associates (CRAs), and other responsible study personnel.

You can learn about all the available tools to maintain the safety distribution tasks in the following sections:

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In Pharmacovigilance, all the data on adverse events and other occurrences related or suspected to be related to investigational products. In eClinical, it is mostly data collected from subjects during clinical trials; this data helps to evaluate product safety and efficacy.

A person who is involved in a clinical trial and is designated to ensure that an investigation is conducted according to the signed investigator statement, the investigational plan, and applicable regulations; for protecting the rights, safety, and welfare of subjects under the investigator's care; and for the control of drugs under investigation. The clinical investigator must meet requirements set forth by regulatory bodies.

See also: principal investigator

A person responsible for the successful planning, execution, and management of clinical trials. The CRC’s scope of work might include study preparation, site setup, patient recruitment, regulatory compliance control, data collection, and more.

In the eClinical system, the Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) user role is granted to a person who works on a site with subjects and is responsible for entering data to EDC, ensuring the data is entered correctly according to all requirements, and answering queries from data managers on any questionable data pieces.

A person responsible for overseeing and monitoring a clinical trial to ensure it is conducted in compliance with regulatory standards and protocols. The CRA’s scope of work might include protocol review, site selection and initiation, monitoring, data entry control, and more.

In the eClinical system, the Clinical Research Associate (CRA) user role is assigned to a person who works with the sites, and in EDC, mainly has to make sure that the entered data is truthful to the source document. CRA checks the source document in a process called source data verification and ensures that everything entered by the clinical research coordinators is valid to avoid any discrepancies caused by human errors.