Dr Patricia Fitzgerald and Shehnaz Vakharia will be attending the Indian Society of Clinical Research meeting at the ITC Grand Maratha, Mumbai on 4th & 5th January, 2013. Dr Fitzgerald will be sitting on an expert panel with US FDA representatives from the India...
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QA as a Service
As a service company we keep in mind the old adage that ‘the customer is always right’. But is this really appropriate in QA? I guess you would say it depends on who the customer is. In our business, the customer is the company/person that commissioned the...
ADAMAS provides GxP global reach
This week, ADAMAS consultants are conducting audits for a variety of clients around the world in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, India, Germany, Poland , USA, United Kingdom, Italy and Canada.
The BARQA West and Wales Regional Forum
The BARQA West and Wales Regional Forum (WWRF) is arguably the organisation’s largest area. Encompassing 15 English counties and the whole of Wales, the region homes 30% of the UK BARQA members. ADAMAS actively supports and encourages attendance and participation in...
What to do when the monitor disappears from your study?
The case of an experienced contract monitor removing themselves from a study, not returning original documents and not completing any of the monitoring activities (such as monitoring reports). In this particular case, the monitor did not invoice for the work and...
Medical Devices
ADAMAS recently held an internal training session for all their consultants on the topic of Investigational Medical Devices (IMDs). This was run Dr Joerg Holzinger, ADAMAS’ ‘subject matter expert’ in response to an increasing number of enquiries for assistance in...
Trial Master File Reference Model
The Trial Master File (TMF) comprises all those essential documents which individually and collectively permit evaluation of the conduct of a trial and the quality of the data produced. These documents serve to demonstrate the compliance of the investigator, sponsor...
Paediatric Studies
Over the years ADAMAS had assisted clients in a number of paediatric projects covering various therapeutic areas. These have included studies related to treatment of infections in neonates, prevention of bleeding during surgery, treatment of ADHD and a vaccine study,...
Realistic Audits – Reporting
The audit report is the final deliverable, following an audit, and must therefore, be able to communicate, effectively, what was done and what was found, to the people commissioning the audit, as well as the auditees. This is not an easy task, and many auditing...
Realistic Audits – Conduct
After 20 years in Clinical Quality Assurance I was actually starting to doubt myself. A few days ago I was requested to provide a proposal for a systems audit of a service provider, but we only had one day in which to do the audit! I explained to the potential...