Pharmacovigilance services | Oxter Research

 

Pharmacovigilance services are an area that obviously no pharmaceutical company can afford to make a single mistake with. It can be a time-draining task to decipher all the information from prospective pharmacovigilance companies, costing you valuable working hours. This article therefore gives a simple perspective on the overall operational requirements providers should offer, which could more efficiently streamline the entire process at both pre and post marketing authority levels. By spending ten minutes reading this, you can come away with a basic checklist from which to start researching potential pharmacovigilance solutions providers with more informed insight and direction.

Pharmacovigilance solutions providers should be able to offer you comprehensive services during the pre marketing and post marketing phases for each product. This simple 'rule' can avoid having to waste time and potentially substantial amounts of the budget handing over to new pharmacovigilance companies at different stages in the product life cycle.

It goes without saying that clinical trials can only be successfully conducted if the pharmacovigilance solutions provider can adequately ensure the clinical trial safety data has been properly managed. The question arises over whether your provider can offer a complete service throughout the trial programme, not just one trial or trial stage. If not, elements would have to be outsourced again, bringing you back to the start again in locating a suitable provider. 

There needs to be substantial experience and capacity to expertly handle managing clinical trial suspected adverse events (SAE) from the micro level of case assessment to the macro level of actually facilitating expedited reporting of SUSARs (Suspected Unexpected Serious Adverse Reactions) to the regulatory authorities in your location. Then the requirement for Annual Safety Reports (ASRs) will be a budgeting consideration throughout the clinical trial programme. Using the same pharmacovigilance services company obviously streamlines operations in this respect. And the same company should be able to provide a data safety monitoring board should one be necessary.

Oxter Research an India Based Pharmaceutical Research Company founded in 2015 with Pharmacovigilance services in India.