ICSR – individual case safety report

Following the upgrade by the European Medicines Agency on 22 November 2017,  ICSRs for all adverse reactions (serious and non-serious) experienced within the EU are required to be submitted to EudraVigilance.

ICSR format is precise and exacting and includes:

• References for administration and identification purposes, including where the report came from and who received it
• All information from primary source(s)
• Characteristics of the patient concerned
• Description of the relevant events
• Results of clinical tests and procedures
• Characteristics of the medicinal product in question
• Narrative style summary of the case
• Any further relevant supporting information

It is expected that each ICSR should be:

• Validated before reporting
• Submitted within extremely strict and rapid timescales – starting from the time when minimal information is brought to your attention as the Marketing Authorisation Holder – and this includes your Sales representatives and any contractors
• Rapidly re-submitted as new or updated information becomes available which has an impact on the original submission

You also need to be sure that detailed Safety Data Exchange Agreements (SDEAs) exist regarding relevant information exchanges (including information from periodic Literature Searching) with any of your contractors. SDEAs must be formulated to ensure compliance with the interim and final arrangements.

Why Choose PrimeVigilance for your ICSR COMPLIANCE?

Advice from our drug safety services consultants ensures that:

• You and your staff stay abreast of all the changes
• Your submissions remain seamlessly compliant throughout the transition from interim to final arrangements
• You avoid onerous and costly penalties accrued through non-compliance

PrimeVigilance uses Argus Oracle Health Sciences leading safety database. With over 10 years dedicated to providing pharmacovigilance services, our employees have been processing Individual Case Safety Reports (ICSR) and drug safety data for many years. Our system server is secure, with appropriate backup and disaster recovery programs in place.

We offer a cost-effective solution for managing your legacy safety data as well as taking care of your company’s future needs for processing ICSRs. Our experienced pharmacovigilance physicians are involved in reviewing MedDRA coding and in the medical assessment of all cases. We carry out full quality control of each report.

We have submissions staff who are qualified users of EudraVigilance for electronic reporting. Case disposition is tracked and contributes to metrics for regulatory and quality compliance monitoring. Regulatory intelligence is a key part of appropriate pharmacovigilance and we have a team in place to ensure that we keep abreast of any changes in the regulations and update our core regulatory reporting requirements table accordingly.

We understand the need to respect the deadlines, making the right decisions about expedited reporting, and keeping the appropriate people in your company informed. If necessary, we can tailor our established standard practices to your specific requirements. The whole system is subject to internal audit and open to your scrutiny.

However, entering data into a safety database is only a small part of the requirements for pharmacovigilance. Regular management reports, routine signal detection, database searches for signal evaluation, periodic safety update reports, or responses to regulatory authority inquiries all attract the same attention to the quality and application of medical expertise. At PrimeVigilance, if services of a medic are required, they will be provided, but it need not cost you the earth.

ICSR: Compliant and Complete

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For more information contact PrimeVigilance today

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1. European Commission. Vol 9a of The Rules Governing Medicinal Products in the European Union – Guidelines on Pharmacovigilance for Medicinal Products for Human Use.
PLEASE NOTE: EU drug safety laws are complex here and changing – this document is provided for educational purposes and cannot be interpreted as any statement of meaningful professional advice.</sub>