What makes teams successful, based upon a study of employees working within process improvement teams for each of six large corporations, led to a list of approaches for achieving organizational quality, albeit one improvement project at a time. When I parsed these lists together with a focus upon leadership to achieve organizational quality, I was able to place the key concepts into the seven categories listed below.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been prevalent in the United States for over 2 years, on July 6th, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) modified the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Paxlovid for COVID-19 treatment. Paxlovid is a co-packaged, nirmatrelvir tablet and ritonavir tablet for oral use to assist with the treatment of COVID-19 in adult and pediatric patients with positive SARS-CoV-2 testing1. The nirmatrelvir inhibits the SARS-Cov-2 protein to stop the virus whereas the ritonavir slows down the breakdown of nirmatrelvir to help it remain in the body for a longer period.
If you are a drug manufacturer in the US, an Annual Drug Product Review (ADPR) should be familiar to you. ADPRs are exactly what they sound like – an annual review of your drug product based on product batch and product yield, customer complaints, recalls, stability data, and validation data just to name a few. ADPRs should be performed in order to maintain compliance with 21 CFR 211.180 and to be in alignment with the FDA’s Guidance for Industry, Q7A GMP for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients.[1]
When reporting an Adverse Event to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the best method is to utilize the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS). FAERS is a database that contains adverse event reports, product quality complaints that led to an adverse event, and medication error reports1. All FAERS reports are easily accessible to the public.
A device can be registered for the De Novo pathway if there is evidence of the safety and effectiveness of the device and there is not a previously legally marketed predicate device1. When determining if your device can go through the De Novo process there are two pathways available to determine the device classification.
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