中药新药多中心临床试验协作伦理审查共识(1.0版)

Consensus on collaborative ethical review of multi-center clinical trials of new drugs of traditional Chinese medicine (version 1.0)

目前关于中药新药多中心临床试验的伦理审查存在的问题,主要有中心伦理委员和各参加单位伦理审查内容和范围缺乏审查协议约定,造成重复审查,从而导致伦理审查过程耗时较长,且各研究中心伦理委员会的审查能力参差不齐,也不一定有利于受试者权益和安全的保障。针对存在的问题,为提高中药新药多中心临床试验的伦理审查效率、避免重复审查,中国药学会中药临床评价专业委员会组织专家制定"中药新药多中心临床试验协作伦理审查共识(1.0版)"(下称《共识》),该《共识》的制定依据《关于深化审评审批制度改革鼓励药品医疗器械创新的意见》《涉及人的生物医学研究伦理审查办法》等相关文件的要求,包括了《共识》的适用范围、制定原则、中心伦理委员会的条件、伦理审查资源共享、协作审查范围与程序、权利与义务等内容,旨在初步探索并建立科学的、可操作性的伦理审查程序,在充分保护受试者权益的基础上,签署协作伦理审查协议,明确各方的伦理审查职责,避免重复审查,提高中药新药多中心临床试验伦理审查效率与质量。

At present, the issues regarding multi-center clinical trials of new drugs of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) remain: the lack of agreement on the content and scope of the ethical review among the ethics committee members of the center and the participating units results in repeated review, which leads to a time-consuming ethical review process. Moreover, the review capabilities of the ethics committees of various research centers are uneven, which is not necessarily beneficial to the protection of subjects′ rights and safety. In view of the existing problems, to improve the efficiency of ethical review of multi-center clinical trials of new drugs of TCM and avoid repeated reviews, the TCM Clinical Evaluation Professional Committee of Chinese Pharmaceutical Association organized experts to formulate the "Consensus on collaborative ethical review of multi-center clinical trials of new drugs of TCM(version 1.0)"(hereinafter referred to as "Consensus"). The "Consensus" is formulated in accordance with the requirements of relevant documents such as but not limited to "the opinions on deepening the reform of the evaluation and approval system to encourage the innovation of pharmaceutical medical devices", "the regulations of ethical review of biomedical research involving human subjects". The "Consensus" covers the scope of application, formulation principles, conditions for the ethics committee of the center, sharing of ethical review resources, scope and procedure of collaborative review, rights and obligations, etc. The aims of the "Consensus" is to preliminarily explore and establish a scientific and operable ethical review procedure. Additionally, on the basis of fully protecting the rights and interests of the subjects, a collaborative ethical review agreement needs to be signed to clarify the ethical review responsibilities of all parties, to avoid repeated review, and to improve the efficiency and quality of ethical review in multi-center clinical trials of new drugs of TCM.