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PDUFA Pilot Project: Proprietary Name Review - Concept Paper

FinalCenter for Drug Evaluation and Research10/07/2008

Description

On September 27, 2007, President Bush signed into law the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-85, 121 Stat. 823 (FDAAA), which includes the reauthorization and expansion of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA IV).

Scope & Applicability

Product Classes

2
Nonprescription drug products

Products subject to proprietary name evaluation under IND, NDA, or ANDA; Drug products subject to IND, NDA, or ANDA

Prescription drug products

Products with approved NDAs or ANDAs subject to SLC provisions.

Stakeholders

10
pharmaceutical firms

Participants in the pilot program evaluating proprietary names

Consumer

layman using the drug safely

FMEA team

The team should be multidisciplinary to ensure that different perspectives and viewpoints are brought to the process

Applicant

Entity submitting development data and knowledge; Entity performing the work process for change

Ward clerk

communication from physician to ward clerk to pharmacist to nurse

Nurse

communication from physician to ward clerk to pharmacist to nurse; A health professional participant in simulation studies or user of references.

Pharmacist

Allowed value for reporter qualification

Physician

Allowed value for reporter qualification

Healthcare practitioners

Participants in name simulation studies including physicians and pharmacists.

healthcare practitioner

Relies on product name as critical identifier

Regulatory Context

Attributes

8
Proprietary Name

Commercial name granted by an authority for marketing

Dosing frequency

whether a proprietary name implies an inconsistent dosing frequency

Phonological similarity

unrelated to the orthographic and phonological similarity

Orthographic similarity

Visual similarity between names that may cause errors

Phonological variance

Accounting for the potential for phonological error due to predictable phonological variance.; A characteristic used to evaluate name similarity.

Orthographic appearance

The centers examine the orthographic appearance of the proposed name.; A characteristic used to evaluate name similarity.

Phase 2

Clinical development stage required for IND phase pilot submissions.

Dosing interval

Characteristic discouraged in proprietary names

Identified Hazards

Hazards

2
look-alike and sound-alike proprietary names

Safety concern addressed by PDUFA IV goals

Medication errors

Risk of inappropriate administration of extra doses

Related CFR Sections (11)

Related Warning Letters (1)

  • Finished Pharmaceuticals/Unapproved New Drug/Misbranded/Adulterated

    Neoingenium Labs, SA de CV

    2021-04-06

See Also (8)

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