Clinical Trials 101-ish
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The Committee Will See You Now
Judge Judi
100

This phase of a clinical trial typically involves healthy volunteers and tests for safety and dosage

What is Phase 1?

100

This company sponsors Tylenol, a common over-the-counter pain reliever found in most medicine cabinets.

What is Johnson & Johnson?

100

This process ensures that event assessments are unbiased and based on standardized definitions.

What is adjudication?

100

This audit-friendly record shows who did what and when in the system.

What is the audit trail?

200

The document that outlines how a clinical trial will be conducted.

What is the protocol?

200

This company sponsors the blockbuster diabetes and weight loss drug Ozempic

What is Novo Nordisk?

200

This document defines the adjudication process, roles, decision criteria, and workflows

What is the charter?

200

Judi uses this to notify reviewers when an event is ready for their assessment.

What is an email?

300

This is the term for the group of participants that receives the experimental treatment.

What is the treatment group?

300

This immune-modulating biologic, Humira, brought in billions in annual sales before biosimilars entered the market.

What is Abbvie?

300

This group of experts reviews clinical events to determine if they meet pre-defined criteria.

What is the committee?

300

When an event is ready for final review after multiple adjudications, this step confirms consensus or escalates disagreements.

What is the committee meeting?

400

A type of trial where neither the participants nor the researchers know who is receiving the treatment.

What is double-blind?

400

This sponsor brought us Keytruda, a widely used immunotherapy for cancer.

What is Merck?

400

This term describes a situation where CEC members do not know which treatment a subject received.

What is blinded review?

400

This ensures Judi knows which fields to display, which forms to launch, and how to route events through the workflow.

What is metadata?

500

The regulatory body in the U.S. that oversees clinical trials for drugs and devices

What is the FDA?

500

Known for sponsoring Lipitor, once the best-selling drug in the world.

What is Pfizer?

500

In an endpoint adjudication system, this term refers to the fully assembled packet of source documents and data that reviewers assess.  

What is the dossier?

500

To maintain compliance, Judi must be validated to prove they function as intended under regulatory standards

What is system validation or 21 CFR Part 11 compliance?

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