Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Overview of Drug Safety Challenges Gerald J. Dal Pan, MD, MHS Director Division of Surveillance, Research & Communication Support Office of Drug Safety FDA
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Multifaceted Challenges Identification of new adverse events Investigation of risk Characterization of context
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Identification of New Adverse Events A fundamental goal of post-marketing drug safety programs Must account for many different types of risk Must account for many potentially confounding factors Must account for time course of events
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: What Pre-marketing Safety Data Tell Us Pre-clinical Pharmacology And Toxicology Clinical Pharmacology Clinical Safety Data Open-label Studies Clinical Safety Data Controlled Studies Pre-Marketing Safety Data
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Identification of New Adverse Events Pre-marketing Safety Data Market Introduction Post-marketing Period
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Identification of New Adverse Events Pre-marketing Safety Data Market Introduction Post-marketing Period ???
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Identification of New Adverse Events Pre-marketing Safety Data Market Introduction Post-marketing Period Rare but serious adverse event Aplastic anemia Drug-induced liver injury
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Identification of New Adverse Events Pre-marketing Safety Data Market Introduction Post-marketing Period Also common in the population Myocardial infarction
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Identification of New Adverse Events Pre-marketing Safety Data Market Introduction Post-marketing Period Also a manifestation of the underlying disease Myocardial infarction
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Identification of New Adverse Events Pre-marketing Safety Data Market Introduction Post-marketing Period How do we separate a potential signal from the background?
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Identification of New Adverse Events Pre-marketing Safety Data Market Introduction Post-marketing Period Long latency between drug exposure and event
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Identification of New Adverse Events Pre-marketing Safety Data Market Introduction Post-marketing Period Multiple Effect Modifiers Drug-drug, drug-disease, drug-herbal, drug-food interactions
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Identification of New Adverse Events Pre-marketing Safety Data Market Introduction Post-marketing Period Proper Identification of Medication Errors Medication Errors
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Investigation of New Adverse Event Risk Pre-marketing Safety Data Market Introduction Post-marketing Period Rare but serious adverse event Intensive case evaluation Look back at pre-marketing safety database
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Investigation of New Adverse Event Risk Pre-marketing Safety Data Market Introduction Post-marketing Period Common in the population OR Manifestation of the underlying disease Intensive case evaluation Look back at pre-marketing safety database Still hard to establish and quantify risk
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Investigation of New Adverse Event Risk Clinical Trial Random Allocation Treatment of Interest Control TreatmentFollow-up Period
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Investigation of New Adverse Event Risk Clinical Trial Random Allocation Treatment of Interest Control TreatmentFollow-up Period
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Investigation of New Adverse Event Risk Clinical Trial Random Allocation Treatment of Interest Control TreatmentFollow-up Period Excess Risk Risk Ratio
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Investigation of New Adverse Event Risk Epidemiological Study - Case-Control Case Ascertainment Control Ascertainment Exposure Ascertainment TreatmentNo Treatment Case Control Odds Ratio
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Investigation of New Adverse Event Risk Epidemiological Study - Cohort Study Start observation Time Relative risk or hazard ratio
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Investigation of New Adverse Event Risk Registry Case-control studies Estimate magnitude of problem Study natural history or survival Persons with disease of interest
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Investigation of New Adverse Event Risk Registry Risk factors for exposure Estimate magnitude of exposure Outcome of exposure Persons with exposure of interest
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Understanding Context - Duration of Exposure Duration of Exposure Risk Initial Exposure Critical period to study
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Understanding Context - Population Exposure Duration of Exposure Number of Persons Exposed
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Understanding Context - Population Exposure Duration of Exposure Number of Persons Exposed
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Understanding Context - Population Exposure Duration of Exposure Number of Persons Exposed
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Understanding Context Duration of Exposure Number of Persons Exposed Duration of Exposure Risk Potential for many adverse events
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Understanding Context: Concomitant Use No concomitant use AB Population database studies can help us understand where risk exists in the population Prevalence of Concomitant Use Prevalence of Adverse Events High level concomitant use AB Low level concomitant use AB
Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee May 18-19, Post-marketing Drug Safety Risk Assessment: Summary Multifaceted challenges Many ways to explore risk Context can be important