Toolkit for ICH E6 (R2) Quality Risk Management for Small to Medium Size Companies

One of the most significant revisions to the ICH E6 GCP Guideline in the last 20 years was issued in November 2016, adopted by the EMA in December 2016 and by the FDA as a Guidance Document in March 2018. The new section on Quality Management requires the implementation of a systematic approach for managing risks throughout the course of a clinical study. The addendum also emphasizes appropriate sponsor oversight. Currently available risk management solutions are fairly elaborate, having been developed for and adopted mainly by larger companies. Small to medium size companies find these solutions too complex and not easily adaptable. In this paper, we present a simple but robust toolkit for clinical study risk management for small to medium sized organizations in order to facilitate compliance. The toolkit consists of customizable templates for the following: Clinical Risk Management SOP; Clinical Risk Management Plan; Vendor Oversight SOP; Vendor Oversight Plan; and Clinical Risk Log. The tools were prepared by the DIA GCP-QA Community members and presented at the 2018 DIA Annual Meeting in Boston.