US FDA Aims To Simplify Terminology For Remote Assessments
Executive Summary
The use of various acronyms – including RRA, RIE and RRR – to describe remote assessments of sites and study data has been confusing and makes it sound as though people are speaking ‘like a pirate,’ Office of Study Integrity and Surveillance director Sean Kassim says.
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