Monitoring for Adverse Events Post Marketing Approval of Drugs

Karl E. Peace, Macaulay Okwuokenye

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Abstract

This brief communication provides information to those developing monitoring plans for serious adverse events (SAE’s) following regulatory approval of a new drug. In addition, we (1) illustrate how many patients would need to be treated in order to have high confidence of seeing at least 1 pre-specified SAE, (2) show that absence of proof of a SAE is not proof of absence of that SAE, and (3) identify statistical methodology that could be used for formal statistical monitoring of SAE’s.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalInternational Journal of Allergy Medications
Volume1
StatePublished - Nov 15 2015

Keywords

  • Drug approval
  • FDA
  • SAE's
  • Serious adverse events
  • US Food and Drug Administration

DC Disciplines

  • Biostatistics
  • Community Health
  • Public Health

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