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Risk-proportionate approach to paediatric clinical trials: The legal requirements, challenges, and the way forward under the European Union Clinical Trials Regulation

Wan, Mandy; Alessandrini, Elisa; Brogan, Paul; Eleftheriou, Despina; Warris, Adilia; Brüggemann, Roger; Turner, Mark; (2022) Risk-proportionate approach to paediatric clinical trials: The legal requirements, challenges, and the way forward under the European Union Clinical Trials Regulation. Clinical Trials , 19 (5) pp. 573-578. 10.1177/17407745221093812. Green open access

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: It is now widely accepted that there is a need for safety and efficacy data on medicines used in children. In the European Union, legislation has provided the necessary framework obligating and incentivizing pharmaceutical companies to carry out appropriate paediatric research to support the development of new medicines. This change in research culture, that medicines used in children should be appropriately researched in children, has also led to the recognition of the importance of investigator-initiated clinical trials in furthering medical knowledge on the off-label use of authorized medicines for which paediatric data are often limited. However, medicines regulatory authorities of European Union countries have largely adopted a uniform approach to the regulation of both industry-sponsored and investigator-initiated trials and, in doing so, have added disproportionate burden to the conduct of paediatric clinical trials investigating authorized medicines. CASE STUDIES: Two European multinational paediatric clinical trials funded by the conect4children consortium are presented to provide a comparative insight into past challenges and to illustrate how the new framework provided by the European Clinical Trials Regulation (No. 536/2014) addresses these barriers in practice. CONCLUSION: The European Clinical Trials Regulation gives a strong impetus to a risk-proportionate approach and offers a path for more efficient delivery of investigator-initiated paediatric clinical trials.

Type: Article
Title: Risk-proportionate approach to paediatric clinical trials: The legal requirements, challenges, and the way forward under the European Union Clinical Trials Regulation
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/17407745221093812
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1177/17407745221093812
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Clinical trials directive, clinical trials regulation, paediatric investigator-initiated trial, risk-proportionate approach
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy > Pharmaceutics
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > UCL School of Pharmacy
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Dept
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148382
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