Good Clinical Practice

For CRAs, investigators/sites, auditors, compliance, legal, and other clinical professionals...

"This book should be mandatory reading for every person involved in clinical research."

Munish Mehra, Ph.D., Managing Director, Global Drug Development Experts

What's New For 2009:

• 100+ new Q&As focused on emerging areas of GCP
• 100+ pages of new brand new content, plus hundreds of updated Q&As
• 2009 interviews with senior FDA and EMEA GCP compliance officials
• Expanded and updated collection of brand new GCP compliance data and trends in the U.S., Europe, and Emerging Regions

The Good Clinical Practice: A Question & Answer Reference Guide 2009

Newly updated and expanded for 2009, this industry-leading GCP training and reference guide answers approximately 700 of the most common and difficult questions regarding the day-to-day interpretation and implementation of GCP standards for drugs and biologics.

While continuing with a U.S./FDA focus, this innovative reference pocket guide has now been expanded to provide even more information on not just US GCP, but international GCP issues in such regions and countries as the European Union, India, Latin America and Russia! Find out for yourself why more and more leading pharma and biotech companies are using this reference guide to educate their clinical professionals, trial auditors, and site staff on the many emerging complexities of GCP standards.

With the completely updated and expanded 2009 guide, read how the FDA will now be focusing more intently on sponsors' "quality systems" when significant problems are discovered at clinical study site, why the rate of significant non-compliance is being discovered at clinical trial sites, and how increasing numbers of new drug reviews are being delayed due to GCP compliance issues.

In one pocket handbook, you'll have authoritative answers to hundreds of common and emerging questions, in 20+ GCP-related areas, right at your fingertips:

• FDA and ICH GCP Standards for Clinical Research
• Form FDA 1572-Statement of Investigator
• Informed Consent
• Patient Recruitment
• State Standards and GCP
• Source Data/Documentation
• Investigator/Site Requirements
• Clinical Monitoring
• Clinical Study Safety Reporting
• Clinical Trial Protocols/Protocol Changes/Protocol Violations
• Institutional Review Boards
• Quality Assurance Activities/Study Auditing/FDA Inspections
• Investigational Drug Accountability, Administration, and Labeling
• Now includes a new section on GCP in Latin America!

Also provides all FDA, ICH, and EU GCP-related regulations and guidances in one source!

"Unless you already know everything there is to know about GCP, we recommend that you buy this book. This book is excellent."

• Graeme Scott, Anjo Strik, and Jean Saint-Pierre in The Quality Assurance Journal

"The book is the most important advance in clinical research education in quite some time... A valuable tool that I recommend every clinical research professional have on their desk."

• Lisa Zimmerman, MS, Director of QA and Regulatory Compliance, Duke Clinical Research Institute

"This book is already a leader among GCP references and one that offers an immediate return for readers."

• William Hirschhorn, Drexel University College of Medicine

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