Draft Guidance for Clinical Investigators, Sponsors, and Investigational Review Boards on Adverse Event Reporting-Improving Human Subject Protection; Availability

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for industry entitled "Guidance for Clinical Investigators, Sponsors, and IRBs; Adverse Event Reporting-- Improving Human Subject Protection." This guidance is intended to assist the research community in interpreting requirements for submitting reports of unanticipated problems, including certain adverse events reports, to the Institutional Review Board (IRB). FDA developed this draft guidance in response to concerns raised by the IRB community that increasingly large volumes of individual adverse event reports are inhibiting rather than enhancing IRBs' ability to adequately protect human subjects. The guidance provides recommendations to IRBs, sponsors, and investigators on improving the usefulness of the adverse event information submitted to IRBs.