Essential Study Documents Sample Clauses

Essential Study Documents. The Investigator is responsible for providing and maintaining essential study documents. Essential study documents are those documents that individually and collectively permit the evaluation of the conduct of the study and the quality of the data produced. These documents serve to demonstrate the compliance of the Investigator and the Sponsor (or an authorized representative) with the standards of GCPs and with all applicable national regulatory requirements. Essential study documents will include regulatory documents as well as source documents which are original documents, data and records of clinical findings, observations and other activities in a clinical study necessary for the reconstruction and evaluation of the study. Source documents will include hospital records, clinical and office charts, laboratory notes, memoranda, subject 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 medical/technical departments involved in the clinical study. The Investigator agrees to allow direct access to all essential clinical study documents for the purpose of monitoring and/or auditing by the Sponsor (or an authorized representative) and inspection by the appropriate national and foreign regulatory authorities.