ACRP CCRC EXAM PREP with complete solutions
Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) - ANSWER In the pre-approval clinical experience with a new medicinal product or its new usages, particularly as the therapeutic dose(s) may not be established: all noxious and unintended responses to a medicinal product related
to any dose should be considered adverse drug reactions.
Adverse Event (AE) - ANSWER Any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation subject administered a pharmaceutical product and which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment.
Applicable Regulatory Requirement(s) - ANSWER Any law(s) and regulation(s) addressing the conduct of clinical trials of investigational products.
Approval (in relation to Institutional Review Boards) - ANSWER The affirmative decision
of the IRB that the clinical trial has been reviewed and may be conducted at the institution site within the constraints set forth by the IRB, the institution, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and the applicable regulatory requirements.
Audit - ANSWER A systematic and independent examination of trial related activities and documents to determine whether the evaluated trial related activities were conducted, and the data were recorded, analyzed and accurately reported according to the protocol, sponsor's standard operating procedures (SOPs), Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and the applicable regulatory requirement(s).
Audit Certificate - ANSWER A declaration of confirmation by the auditor that an audit has taken place.
Audit Report - ANSWER A written evaluation by the sponsor's auditor of the results of the audit.
Audit Trail - ANSWER Documentation that allows reconstruction of the course of events.
Blinding/Masking - ANSWER A procedure in which one or more parties to the trial are kept unaware of the treatment assignment(s).
Single-blinding - ANSWER usually refers to the subject(s) being unaware
Double- blinding - ANSWER usually refers to the subject(s), investigator(s), monitor, and, in some cases, data analyst(s) being unaware of the treatment assignment(s). Case Report Form (CRF) - ANSWER A printed, optical, or electronic document designed to record all of the protocol required information to be reported to the sponsor on each trial subject.
Clinical Trial/Study - ANSWER Any investigation in human subjects intended to discover
or verify the clinical, pharmacological and/or other pharmacodynamic effects of an investigational product(s), and/or to identify any adverse reactions to an investigational product(s), and/or to study absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of an investigational product(s) with the object of ascertaining its safety and/or efficacy.
Clinical Trial/Study Report - ANSWER A written description of a trial/study of any therapeutic, prophylactic, or diagnostic agent conducted in human subjects, in which the
clinical and statistical description, presentations, and analyses are fully integrated into a single report
Comparator (Product) - ANSWER An investigational or marketed product (i.e., active control), or placebo, used as a reference in a clinical trial.
Compliance (in relation to trials) - ANSWER Adherence to all the trial-related requirements, Good Clinical Practice (GCP) requirements, and the applicable regulatory
requirements.
Confidentiality - ANSWER Prevention of disclosure, to other than authorized individuals,
of a sponsor's proprietary information or of a subject's identity.
Contract - ANSWER A written, dated, and signed agreement between two or more involved parties that sets out any arrangements on delegation and distribution of tasks and obligations and, if appropriate, on financial matters.
Coordinating Committee - ANSWER A committee that a sponsor may organize to coordinate the conduct of a multicentre trial.
Coordinating Investigator - ANSWER An investigator assigned the responsibility for the coordination of investigators at different centres participating in a multicentre trial.
Contract Research Organization (CRO) - ANSWER A person or an organization (commercial, academic, or other) contracted by the sponsor to perform one or more of a
sponsor's trial-related duties and functions.
Direct Access - ANSWER Permission to examine, analyze, verify, and reproduce any records and reports that are important to evaluation of a clinical trial.
Documentation - ANSWER All records, in any form (including, but not limited to, written,
electronic, magnetic, and optical records, and scans, x-rays, and electrocardiograms) that describe or record the methods, conduct, and/or results of a trial, the factors affecting a trial, and the actions taken.
