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MaggieSantos ☆ Portugal, 2017-09-20 15:05 (2403 d 04:01 ago) Posting: # 17821 Views: 4,607 |
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Good morning, We have been asked to perform a BE study on Fampridine. I would like to confirm two informations. Does Fampridine is considered a NTI drug for EMA? Considering a CI limit of 90-111% whats the recomende sample size for fampridine. Do you know any good and free calculation site for BE? Kind Regards mMrgarida Barreto |
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DavidManteigas ★ Portugal, 2017-09-26 12:55 (2397 d 06:10 ago) @ MaggieSantos Posting: # 17827 Views: 3,860 |
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Hi Margarida, To calculate the sample size, you have the R package PowerTOST developed and mantained by some known members of this forum  Regarding the NTI status of Fampridine I can't help. If there is no information available, maybe you can ask directly to the agency you are targetting your submission? Regards, David Manteigas |
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ElMaestro ★★★ Denmark, 2017-09-26 13:23 (2397 d 05:42 ago) @ MaggieSantos Posting: # 17828 Views: 3,955 |
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Hi MaggieSantos, ❝ I would like to confirm two informations. Does Fampridine is considered a NTI drug for EMA? Not known. ❝ Considering a CI limit of 90-111% whats the recomende sample size for fampridine. You need a guess of your match (T/R) and your CV's. The latter can perhaps be guesstimated from this link. ❝ Do you know any good and free calculation site for BE? Free? As in "free and unvalidated"? Do you mean Calculation of BE = calculation of confidence intervals or sample sizes or CV's? Or somehting else? At any rate forum.bebac.at is a good place to start for free services, ideas and pretty bad jokes.   I agree with Manteigas - you really need dialogue with regulators on this type of substance; the profile is tricky and easily leads to safety concerns. When safety (and convulsions) is a manifest issue as worded in the SPC then some regulators may automatically default to NTI thinking. But also note that originator did some equivalence trials and from the wording of FDA's review indicates that 80.00%-125.00% was acceptable for (some of) those applications; this might be argumentation you could use in your future scientific advices or presub meetings with regulators? Having said that, considering the safety profile of the drug and the fact that you sound like you are developing or testing your own new formulation I think you should go for a phase I / pilot where subjects are monitored a bit more intensely than usual, and then define the dual purpose as: a. ensuring that your formulation is associated with a relevant safety profile b. extracting relevant CV's that will allow you to do a sample size calculation for your own formulation. Good luck. — Pass or fail! ElMaestro |
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