Monitoring CROs [BE/BA News]

posted by Helmut Homepage – Vienna, Austria, 2014-12-07 15:08 (3808 d 20:12 ago) – Posting: # 13999
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Hi ElMaestro,

❝ As a private auditor you cannot write you have detected fraud.


Why not? The sponsor should be happy that I detected it and not an inspector years later. I had three cases in my career (stupid mistakes – not fraud). The studies were repeated. In two cases CROs repeated studies for free and in one the net costs where shared 50/50 (because the sponsor could have detected the mistake during his monitoring; I discovered a mistake in the randomization after the study was completed).

❝ You will end up with a bunch of lawyers fees to pay.


Why?

❝ Writing that you see conduct which may not be fully compatible with the principles of GCP blah blah is what most have to resort to.


Why?

❝ Second, actually realising fraud is present is not always completely easy. Let me show you, say, 10 ECGs of which 3 come from the same person sampled 2 minutes apart. Do you think you would see it?


No way. But: I have heard about ECGs where in the PDFs the subject-ID was edited in Acrobat. Stupidly the edited ID was in Arial and everything else in Courier. I guess I would be able to see this.

❝ If you answer yes …


I don’t – though I have some sympathies for idiot savants.

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