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Quiz
You come into the office to find that study medication has been recently delivered, unpacked, and left out at room temperature for 3 hours. The study sponsor stated that the study compound must be refrigerated. What do you do with the medication?
a) Throw it out because it is no longer good
b) Put it in the refrigerator. It was only 3 hours, which is not all that long
c) Put it in the refrigerator and contact the study sponsor
d) Put it in the refrigerator and only use it if you run out of the second shipment of study medication
You are involved in a clinical trial in which the study compound is subject to the Controlled Substances Act. It is delivered from the study sponsor in a locked container. Where is the proper place to store the compound?
a) In the original container in which it was shipped from the study sponsor
b) Locked in a stationary cabinet or safe
c) In an unlocked cabinet with other medications not involved in the clinical trial
d) Alone in an unlocked cabinet
You notice that a couple of subjects are returning medication at their assessment visits. What do you do?
a) Ignore the problem because it is only a couple of subjects
b) Provide a pamphlet on the importance of adherence and send them home to read it
c) Discuss with each subject why he/she has not taken the medication as prescribed and proceed accordingly
d) Immediately disqualify the subjects from the trial
You are concluding a clinical trial and have some remaining study medication. This specific trial involves a medication that is already available on the market. You have many patients that use this medication outside of the trial that may benefit from free samples, as it is very expensive. The study sponsor did not outline what to do with the medication. What do you do with the leftover drug?
a) Give it out to patients not involved in the trial
b) Return the drug to the study sponsor
c) Destroy the remaining medication
d) Contact the study sponsor for further instruction
You just received a package of study medication but notice that the number of doses doesn’t seem to match the shipping manifest. What type of error is this?
a) Recording receipt mistake
b) Drug dispensing log error
c) Inaccurate return/destroy log