US FDA Aims To Simplify Terminology For Remote Assessments

The use of various acronyms – including RRA, RIE and RRR – to describe remote assessments of sites and study data has been confusing and makes it sound as though people are speaking ‘like a pirate,’ Office of Study Integrity and Surveillance director Sean Kassim says.

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A plethora of R-containing acronyms has people sounding like pirates when they talk about US FDA's remote assessment tools. • Source: Alamy

The US Food and Drug Administration is trying to simplify the terminology it uses to describe remote site and data assessments.

The intent is to clear up stakeholder confusion resulting from the use of multiple abbreviations, all containing the letter “R”, to describe various types of remote approaches, Sean Kassim, director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research’s Office of Study Integrity and Surveillance (OSIS), said at a good clinical practices workshop

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