English | Norwegian | Abbreviation | Explanation |
Advanced therapy | Avansert terapi | AT | Gene therapy, somatic cell therapy or tissue therapy. An investigatonal product based on advanced therapy is called ATIMP. Regulation (EC) No 1394/2007, Article 2. |
Adverse Event | Uønsket medisinsk hendelse | AE | “Adverse event” means any untoward medical occurrence in a subject to whom a medicinal product is administered and which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. |
Adverse Reaction | Bivirkning | AR | A response to a medicinal product which is noxious and unintended. Directive 2001/83/EC. |
Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification system | Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification system | ATC | International classification system for drugs |
Annotated CRF | Annotert CRF | aCRF | A blank CRF with markings, or annotations, that coordinate each datapoint in the form with its |
Annual safety report | Årsrapport | ASR | Is part of the mandatory safety reporting. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, art 43. The annual report should be sent on a DSUR format. ICH guideline E2F on development safety update report |
Audit trail | Sporbarhet | Documentation that allows reconstruction of the course of events. ICH GCP 1.9. | |
Authorised auxiliary medicinal product | Markedsført tilleggslegemiddel | “Authorised auxiliary medicinal product” means a medicinal product authorised in accordance with regulation (EC) No 726/2004 or in any Member State concerned in accordance with Directive 2001/83/EC, irrespective of changes to the labelling of the medicinal product, which is used as an auxiliary medicinal product; Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. | |
Auxiliary medicinal product | Tilleggslegemiddel | A drug to be used in a clinical trial and described in the protocol, but not as a drug under investigation (IMP). | |
Bias | Bias/skjevhet | Bias: used in statistical and empirical research when results or inferences systematically deviate from the true values. Bias may occur as a result of errors or inaccuracies in the sample of study subjects, choice of method of investigation or assessment of results. The Norwegian Large Encyclopaedia of Medicine | |
Blinding/ Masking | Blinding | A procedure in which one or more parties to the trial are kept unaware of the treatment assignment(s). Single-blinding usually refers to the subject(s) being unaware, and double-blinding usually refers to the subject(s), investigator(s), monitor, and, in some cases, data analyst(s) being unaware of the treatment assignment(s). ICH GCP 1.10. | |
Case Report Form | Case Report Form (datainnsamlingsskjema) | CRF eCRF | The case report form is the tool used by the sponsor of a clinical trial to collect data from each participating patient. All data on each patient participating in a clinical trial are held and/or documented in the CRF. Electronic CRFs are often referred to as eCRFs as they originally were made on paper. |
CE Marking | CE-merking | CE marking is an administrative marking that indicates conformity with health, safety, and environmental protection standards for products sold within the European Economic Area (EEA). | |
Clinical Study | Klinisk studie | “Clinical study” means any investigation in relation to humans intended: (a) to discover or verify the clinical, pharmacological or other pharmacodynamic effects of one or more medicinal products; (b) to identify any adverse reactions to one or more medicinal products; or (c) to study the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of one or more medicinal products; with the objective of ascertaining the safety and/or efficacy of those medicinal products. A clinical study that does not fulfil the definition of a clinical trial will not be subject to scientific and ethical review in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. | |
Clinical Trial | Klinisk (legemiddel) utprøving | CT | “Clinical trial” means a clinical study (see definition) which fulfils any of the following conditions:
A clinical trial shall be subject to scientific and ethical |
Co-monitoring | Komonitorering | Monitoring together with someone else as part of training. | |
Contract Research Organisation | CRO | CRO | A person or an organization (commercial, academic, or other) contracted by the sponsor to perform one or more of a sponsor's trial-related duties and functions. |
Coordinating Investiator | Koordinerende utprøver | An investigator assigned the responsibility for the coordination of investigators at different centres participating in a multicentre trial. |
English | Norwegian | Abbreviation | Explanation |
Data entry | Datainnlegging | Adding data to the database, by punching, transfer or scanning data. | |
Data entry application | Data entry application | DEA | An application for entering data/information into a database. |
Data entry instructions | Data entry instructions | DEI | Instructions for entering data into the database. |
Data management documentation | Datahåndteringsdokumentasjon | DMD | All documentation that is part of data management, see Data Management - SOP 1.12.b |
Data management plan | Datahåndteringsplan | DMP | Plan that describes the quality control process of data from planning until closure, or publication, of clinical drug trial. |
Data management report | Datahåndteringsrapport | DMR | Report that describes the quality control process of data from planning until closure, or publication, of clinical drug trial. |
Data manager/data management | Datahåndterer | DM | Person responsible for the data entry application (DEA), validation, coding, export of data etc. according to the data management plan. |
Data monitoring committee Data and safety monitoring board Monitorering committee | Datamonitoreringskomité | DMC/DSMB | An independent data-monitoring committee that may be established by the sponsor to assess at intervals the progress of a clinical trial, the safety data, and the critical efficacy endpoints, and to recommend to the sponsor whether to continue, modify, or stop a trial. ICH GCP 1.25. |
Database | Database | DB | A database is a collection of information that is organized so that it can be easily accessed, managed and updated. |
De-identified, see also Pseudonymisation | Avidentifisert, se også Pseudonymisering | De-identifying is a procedure removing personally identifiable information fields within a record and replacing by one or more artificial identifiers, e.g. subject number in a clinical trial. This makes the person in the data record less identifiable while remaining suitable for data analysis and data processing. This process is under GDPR called pseudonymisation. | |
Delegation log/list | Delegeringslogg/-liste | A list of appropriately qualified persons to whom the investigator has delegated significant trial- related duties. ICH GCP 4.1.5. | |
Description of Manufacturing Process | Tilvirkningsdokumentasjon | Detailed Commission guidelines on good maufacturing practice for investigational medicinal products.
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Development Safety Update Report | Development Safety Update Report | DSUR | A common standard for periodic (annual) reporting on drugs under development (including marketed drugs that are under further study). |
Double dummy | Double dummy | A technique for retaining the blind when administering supplies in a clinical trial, when the two treatments cannot be made identical. Supplies are prepared for Treatment A (active and indistinguishable placebo) and for Treatment B (active and indistinguishable placebo). Subjects | |
Double-blind | Dobbeltblind | A double-blind trial is one in which neither the subject nor any of the investigator or sponsor staff who are involved in the treatment or clinical evaluation of the subjects are aware of the treatment received. This includes anyone determining subject eligibility, evaluating endpoints, or assessing compliance with the protocol. This level of blinding is maintained throughout the conduct of the trial, and only when the data are cleaned to an acceptable level of quality will appropriate personnel be unblinded. | |
Early termination of a clinical trial | Tidlig avslutning av en klinisk utprøving | “Early termination of a clinical trial” means the premature end of a clinical trial due to any reason before the conditions specified in the protocol are complied with. | |
Electronic data capture system | Elektronisk datafangstløsning | EDCS | Electronic solution to collect subject data in a clinical trial. |
Electronic data management system | Elektronisk datahåndteringssystem | EDMS | Software for organising and archiving docuements. |
End of a clinical trial | Slutttidspunkt for en klinisk utprøving | “End of a clinical trial’ means the last visit of the last subject, or at a later point in time as defined in the protocol. | |
Essential documents | Essensielle dokumenter | Documents which individually and collectively permit evaluation of the conduct of a study and the quality of the data produced. | |
EU application form | EU-søknadsskjema | Application form to be completed and submitted for a clinical trial to regulatory authorities (e.g. DMP) and ethics committees (e.g. REK). Valid for all EU/EEC countries. | |
EU CT number | EU-utprøvingsnummer | A unique identifying number for a specific clinical trial in the EU database. |
English | Norwegian | Abbreviation | Explanation |
ICH country | ICH-land | An ICH country is a member of “The International Council for Harmonisation”, e.g. Japan, US and EEC countries. | |
Identification and Enrollment Log | Deltagerliste Kodeliste/koblingsnøkkel | The identification log is a confidential list of names of all subjects allocated to trial numbers on enrolling in the trial. Allows investigator/institution to reveal identity of any subject. The Enrollment log is used for documenting chronological enrolment of subjects in the trial ICH GCP 8.3.21 og 8.3.22. The identification list is also called code-list or key- list. | |
Important Protocol Deviation | Vesentlig protokoll avvik | IPD | Important Protocol Deviation (IPD): A PD that may significantly impact the completeness, accuracy, and/or reliability of the study data or that may significantly affect a subject’s rights, safety, or well-being. For example, enrolling patients that do not meet key eligibility criteria; incorrect administration of study drug; absence of source documents; failure in recording or incorrectly recording the primary efficacy variable(s). |
Incapacitated subject | Deltagere uten samtykkekompetanse | A trial participant that of other reasons than being a minor, cannot consent to participation. Incapacitated subjects are, for example, elderly people with advanced dementia, mentally handicapped, coma patients or people with a severe psychological disorders. | |
Independent Ethics Committee in Norway | REK | IEC/REK | Regional Committee for medical and health realted reseatch ethics. Regionale komiteer for medisinsk og helsefaglig forskningsetikk. |
Informed Consent Form | Informert samtykke/ samtykkeskjema | ICF | A written, dated and signed statement to participate in a clinical trial, given by a subject (or, where applicable, to their legally designated representatives). The statement must be given voluntary after being properly and fully informed. Regulation (EU) 536/2014, Article 29. |
Inspection | Inspeksjon | The act by a competent authority of conducting an official review of documents, facilities, records, quality assurance arrangements, and any other resources that are deemed by the competent authority to be related to the clinical trial and that may be located at the clinical trial site, at the sponsor's and/or contract research organisation's facilities, or at other establishments which the competent authority sees fit to inspect. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. | |
Intention-to-treat | Intention-to-treat | ITT | Comparison of treatment groups based on initial treatment assignment and not on the treatment eventually received. |
Interim Analysis | Interimanalyse | An analysis of collected data before the trial has been completed. Are used for safety evaluations and to determine whether to continue, amend or stop the study. ICH GCP 1.25/1.32. | |
Investigational medicinal product | Utprøvingspreparat | IMP | “Investigational medicinal product” means a medicinal product which is being tested or used as a reference, including as a placebo, in a clinical trial. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. |
Investigational Medicinal Product Dossier | Investigational Medicinal Product Dossier | IMPD | The IMPD shall give information on the quality of any investigational medicinal product, the manufacture and control of the investigational medicinal product, and data from non-clinical studies and from its clinical use. The SmPC valid at the time of application may be used as the IMPD if the investigational medicinal product is authorised. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Annex I, G. |
Investigator | Utprøver | A person responsible for the conduct of the clinical trial at a trial site. If a trial is conducted by a team of individuals at a trial site, the investigator is the responsible leader of the team and may be called the principal investigator. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. | |
Investigator’s Brochure | Investigator’s Brochure | IB | A compilation of the clinical and non-clinical data on the investigational medicinal product or products which are relevant to the study of the product or products in humans. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. |
Legally designated representative | Verge | “Legally designated representative” means a Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. | |
Low-intervention clinical trial | Lav-intervensjon klinisk studie | “Low-intervention clinical trial” means a clinical trial which fulfils all of the following conditions:
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English | Norwegian | Abbreviation | Explanation |
Manufacturing authorisation | Tilvirkertillatelse | Permission from the Norwegian Medicianes agency for production of specific drugs in specific production factories. Manufacturing authorisation is given according to the legemiddelloven and Forskrift om tilvirkning og import av legemidler. | |
Manufacturing of IMP | Tilvirkning av legemiddel | Must be conducted according to Good Manufacturing Practice for investigational medicinal products (GMP) and includes production, packaging, labelling re-labelling and release of drugs. | |
Medical dictionary for regulatory activities | MedDRA | MedDRA | Coding system for medical events. |
Medical monitor and medical officer | Medisinsk monitor | MM/MO | Sponsor representative with authority to assess the safety aspects for a clinical trial. |
Member State concerned | Gjeldende medlemsland | Country in the EEC in which an application or substantial amendment for a clinical trial has been submitted. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. | |
Minor | Barn | A subject who is, according to the law of the Member State concerned, under the age of legal competence to give informed consent. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. In Norway this is 18 years for drug trials. | |
Monitor | Monitor | A person appointed by sponsor to verify that the rights, safety and well-being of subjects are protected, that the reported data are reliable and robust, and that the conduct of the clinical trial is in compliance with the requirements of the Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 48. | |
Monitoring | Monitorering | The act of overseeing the progress of a clinical trial, and of ensuring that it is conducted, recorded, and reported in accordance with the protocol, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and the applicable regulatory requirement(s). ICH GCP 1.38. | |
Monitoring Plan | Monitoreringsplan | A written plan for the Extent and Nature of Monitoring of a clinical trial ICH GCP 5.18.3. | |
Monitoring Report | Monitoreringsrapport | A written report to the sponsor after each trial-site visit or trial-related communication. ICH GCP 5.18.6. | |
Normal clinical practice | Vanlig klinisk praksis | “Normal clinical practice” means the treatment regime typically followed to treat, prevent, or diagnose a disease or a disorder. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. | |
Not Important Deviation | Ikke-vesentlig avvik | NID | A protocol deviation with anticipated low impact on the study subjects rights, safety and/or well-being, or data integrity. |
Patient reported outcome | Pasientrapporterte utfall | PROs | Results/events reported through questionnaires or other means to assess health and quality of life from the patient’s perspective. |
Patient reported outcome measures | Pasientrapporterte utfallsmål | PROMs | Questionnaires or tools trial subjects complete that are used to assess aspects regarding health and quality of life. |
Per protocol | Per protokoll | PP | A per protocol analysis is an analysis only including the data from the subjects who fully complied with the protocol. |
Placebo | Placebo | Medical test product without any active ingredient, that looks and appears like the medical test product, “dummy treatment”. The Norwegian Large Encyclopaedia of Medicine EMA medical terms simplifier (europa.eu) | |
Prescribe | Forskrive | Decision made by authorised health personnel to initiate, continue or change individual treatment with a drug. Prescriptions should be recorded in the patient’s medical charts. FOR-2008-04-03 nr 320 § 3. | |
Prescriber | Rekvirent | Physical or legal person with authorisation to requisite or prescribe drug FOR-1998-04-27-455 § 1.3. | |
Principal Investigator | Hovedutprøver | HU/PI | An investigator who is the responsible leader of a team of investigators who conduct a clinical trial at a clinical trial site. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. |
Protocol | Protokoll | “Protocol” means a document that describes the objectives, design, methodology, statistical considerations and organisation of a clinical trial. The term “protocol” encompasses successive versions of the protocol and protocol modifications. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. | |
Protocol Deviation | Protokollavvik | PD | Any change, divergence or departure from the study design or procedures defined in the protocol. |
Protocol Deviation Handling Plan | Handlingsplan for protokollavvik | PDHP | Study specific plan describing how deviations are to be detected, documented, reviewed, followed- up and closed. The plan may be a separate document or part of an excisting plan e.g. the protocol. |
Protocol modification | Protokollendring og/ eller tillegg | A change to the trial protocol. A susbtantial Protocol modification is likely to have a substantial impact on the safety or rights of the subjects or on the reliability and robustness of the data generated in the clinical trial. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Artivcle 2. | |
Pseudonymisation | Pseudonymisering | “…the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.” Article 4, Regulation (EU) 2016/679, GDPR. |
English | Norwegian | Abbreviation | Explanation |
Quality assurance and quality control system | Elektronisk kvalitetssystem | EK-system | Electronic quality system where the institutions keep their internal routines. |
Quality of Life Questionnaire | Livskvalitetsskjema, spørreskjema | QOL | Usually a validated standardised form/questionnaire for completion by the trial subject/guardian. |
Queries (Data Request Form) | Queries | Questions to site regarding unclarities and missing data. E.g. missing data, error in CRF completion, unlogical and unexpected answers, too high or low values etc. Queries are usually entered in the eCRF or in a data clarification form. | |
Reconciliation | Rekonsiliering | Comparing two sets of records to check that data are in agreement. | |
Requisition | Rekvirering (resept/rekvisisjon) | Ordering a drug verbally, in writing or electronially by prescription or requisition. FOR-1998-04-27-455 § 1.3. Prescription is usually for a patient/study subject and a requisition for storage. | |
Serious Adverse Event/Serious Adverse Reaction | Alvorlig uønsket medisinsk hendelse eller alvorlig bivirkning | SAE/SAR | “Serious adverse event” means any untoward medical occurrence that at any dose:
Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. |
Serious breach | Alvorlig avvik | A breach likely to affect to a significant degree the safety and rights of a subject or the reliability and robustness of the data generated in the clinical trial. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 52. | |
Single-blind | Enkeltblind | In a single-blind trial the investigator and/or his staff are aware of the treatment but the subject is not, or vice versa. ICH E9 Note for Guidance on Statistical Principles for Clinical Trials | |
Source Data | Kildedata | All information in original records and certified copies of original records of clinical findings, observations, or other activities in a clinical trial necessary for the reconstruction and evaluation of the trial. Source data are contained in source documents (original records or certified copies). ICH GCP 1.51. | |
Source Data Verification | Kildedataverifisering | SDV | Checking the accuracy and completeness of the CRF entries, source documents and other trial related records against each other. ICH GCP 5.18.4 (m). |
Source documents | Kildedokumenter | Original documents, data, and records (e.g. hospital records, clinical and office charts, laboratory notes, memoranda, subjects' diaries or evaluation checklists, pharmacy dispensing records, recorded data from automated instruments, copies or transcriptions certified after verification as being accurate copies, microfiches, photographic negatives, microfilm or magnetic media, x-rays, subject files, and records kept at the pharmacy, at the laboratories and at medico-technical departments involved in the clinical trial. ICH GCP 1.52. | |
Sponsor | Sponsor | “Sponsor” means an individual, company, institution or organisation which takes responsibility for the initiation, for the management and for setting up the financing of the clinical trial. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. Sponsor has an overarching responsibility for organising, conducting and reporting of the study. Sponsot must follow the sponsor requirements in ICH GCP chapter 5 and in regulation 536/2014. | |
Sponsor representative | Sponsors representant | Function in health institution delegated the tast to represent sponsor and usually also research responsible. The function is described in “roles and responsibilities” for clinical drug trials. Who holds the function may vary between institutions, it can be e.g. clinic directors or the research director. | |
Standard Operating Procedure | Prosedyre | SOP | Detailed, written instructions to achieve uniformity of the performance of a specific function. Describes responsibility, delegation and who does what, when and how. |
Start of a clinical trial | Starttidspunkt for en klinisk utprøving | “Start of a clinical trial” means the first act of recruitment of a potential subject for a specific clinical trial, unless defined differently in the protocol. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. | |
Subject | Deltager | Participant in a clinical drug trial. | |
Subject screening log | Screeningliste | To document identification of subjects who entered pre-trial screening. ICH GCP 8.3.20. | |
Substantial Modification | Vesentlig endring | “Substantial modification” means any change to any aspect of the clinical trial which is made after notification of a decision referred to in Articles 8, 14, 19, 20 or 23 and which is likely to have a substantial impact on the safety or rights of the subjects or on the reliability and robustness of the data generated in the clinical trial. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. | |
Summary of Product Characteristics | Preparatomtale | SmPC | A document describing the properties and the officially approved conditions of use of a medicine. Summaries of product characteristics form the basis of information for healthcare professionals on how to use the medicine safely and effectively. EMA glossary |
Suspected Unexpected Serious Adverse Reaction | Uventet alvorlig uønsket medisinsk bivirkning | SUSAR | Serious adverse reaction which is not covered by reference safety information, RSI. For academic studies reference docuements used are usually Investigator’s Brochure or SmPC. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2 and Annex III. |
Suspension of a clinical trial | Avbrudd av en klinisk utprøving | Interruption of the conduct of a clinical trial. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. |
English | Norwegian | Abbreviation | Explanation |
Tables/listings/figures | Tabeller/lister/figurer | TLF | Different presentations of data in trial reports and/or publications. |
Temporary halt of a clinical trial | Midlertidig stopp i en klinisk utprøving | “Temporary halt of a clinical trial” means an interruption not provided in the protocol of the conduct of a clinical trial by the sponsor with the intention of the sponsor to resume it. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 2. | |
The Norwegian Medical Products Agency Agency | Direktoratet for medisinske produkter | DMP/NoMA | Norwegian regulatory authority for medicines. |
Trial Master File & Investigator Site File | Studiearkiv | TMFand ISF | The clinical trial master file shall at all times contain the essential documents relating to that clinical trial. TMF should be present at sponsor site and at each study site. The latter is referred to as Investigator Site File (ISF) or Investigator Study File. Regulation 536/2014 names both TMF and ISF for TMF. Regulation (EU) No 536/2014, Article 57. ICH GCP 8. |
Trial site | Studiesenter | The location(s) where trial-related activities are actually conducted. E.g a hospital department. ICH GCP 1.59. | |
Unblinding | Avblinding | The disclosure of the identity of blinded products. Detailed Commission guidelines on good manufacturing practice for investigational medicinal products for human use, pursuant to the second subparagraph of Article 63 (1) of Regulation (EU) No 536/2014. | |
User acceptance testing | User acceptance testing | UAT | Last part of the testing of the DEA, where users are testing the application to ensure it works according to the specifications. |
Vancouver recommendations | Vancouver-konvensjonen | Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals developed of International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). Includes pratical and ethical guidelines for authors, including compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approval from an independent Ethics Committee. |