Bioequivalence and Bioavailability Forum • Justification for the lack of incurred sample reanalysis

irene
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Greece,
2017-02-13 08:58
(2994 d 09:36 ago)

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Justification for the lack of incurred sample reanalysis [Regulatives / Guidelines]

Hello,

in the EMA's "Questions & Answers: positions on specific questions addressed to the Pharmacokinetics Working Party (PKWP)" it states the lack of incurred sample reanalysis data for a bioequivalence study can be justified. One of the points that should be adreessed is

90% confidence interval:
As one element of such justification, if applicable, the applicant could also take into consideration the width of the 90% confidence interval and the ratio to possibly justify that a false positive outcome due to ISR problems has a low probability.

I would like to ask if someone has ever provided these data and how the probability of a false positive outcome can be calculated. I was thinking of using simulations but it is not clear which parameters should I vary and which distributions to use (i.e. mean and sd).

Thank you in advance,

Irene

Dr_Dan
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Germany,
2017-02-14 18:20
(2993 d 00:15 ago)

@ irene
Posting: # 17058
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Justification for the lack of incurred sample reanalysis

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Dear Irene
Please search the forum and you will find a lot of discussion on ISR. The guideline put an expiry date on old studies. If you now submit a study without ISR then this study does not reflect current scientific knowledge and will be certainly rejected. IMHO you can not argue the absence of ISR with 90% confidence interval even if the study result is not borderline.

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Kind regards and have a nice day
Dr_Dan

irene ☆ Greece, 2017-02-15 08:56 (2992 d 09:38 ago) @ Dr_Dan Posting: # 17059 Views: 3,453	Justification for the lack of incurred sample reanalysis Post reply
	Dear Dr_Dan, thank you for your answer. Yes, the study is old, conducted in 2007, but the submission regards a RUP, and I was wondering whether the study can be accepted even though ISR is missing. Kind regards, Irene