PMID- 37072647 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230531 LR - 20230531 IS - 1179-1993 (Electronic) IS - 1178-2595 (Linking) VI - 37 IP - 3 DP - 2023 May TI - Value and Implementation of the Aggregate Safety Assessment Plan. PG - 171-181 LID - 10.1007/s40290-023-00470-2 [doi] AB - Aggregate safety assessment involves evaluation of the totality of safety data to characterize the emerging safety profile of a product. The Drug Information Association-American Statistical Association Interdisciplinary Safety Evaluation scientific working group recently published an approach to developing an Aggregate Safety Assessment Plan (ASAP). Creation of an ASAP facilitates a consistent approach to safety data collection and analysis across studies and minimizes important missing data at the time of regulatory submission. A critical aspect of the ASAP is identification of the Safety Topics of Interest (STOI). The STOI, as defined in the ASAP, comprises adverse events (AEs), which have the potential to impact the benefit: risk profile of a product and typically require specialized data collection or analyses. While there are clear benefits to developing an ASAP for a drug development program, multiple concerns may be encountered with implementation. This article uses the examples of two STOIs to demonstrate the benefits and efficiencies gained with implementation of the ASAP in safety planning as well as in optimally characterizing the emerging safety profile of a product. CI - (c) 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. FAU - Hendrickson, Barbara A AU - Hendrickson BA AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8722-3455 AD - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA. bhendric@bsd.uchicago.edu. FAU - Agarwal, Anupam AU - Agarwal A AD - Denovo Biopharma, San Diego, CA, USA. FAU - Bennett, Dimitri AU - Bennett D AD - Takeda Development Center Americas, Inc., Global Evidence and Outcomes, Cambridge, MA, USA. FAU - Kubler, Jurgen AU - Kubler J AD - QSciCon, Quantitative Scientific Consulting, Marburg, Germany. FAU - McShea, Cynthia AU - McShea C AD - UCB Biosciences, Statistical Science and Innovation, Morrisville, NC, USA. FAU - Tremmel, Lothar AU - Tremmel L AD - CSL Behring, Quantitative Clinical Sciences and Reporting, King of Prussia, PA, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230419 PL - New Zealand TA - Pharmaceut Med JT - Pharmaceutical medicine JID - 101471195 SB - IM MH - *Data Collection/methods MH - United States MH - *Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems/organization & administration EDAT- 2023/04/19 00:42 MHDA- 2023/05/25 06:42 CRDT- 2023/04/18 23:31 PHST- 2023/03/09 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/05/25 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/04/19 00:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/04/18 23:31 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s40290-023-00470-2 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s40290-023-00470-2 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Pharmaceut Med. 2023 May;37(3):171-181. doi: 10.1007/s40290-023-00470-2. Epub 2023 Apr 19.