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Clinical trial pharmacovigilance activities

Manage clinical trial safety activities with expert support for adverse event processing, safety writing, and compliant submissions across global studies.
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  • Commercialization support

Manage clinical trial safety with confidence

Clinical safety activities help protect study participants, support regulatory compliance, and maintain an accurate view of product risk throughout development. 

Cencora supports sponsors from study start-up through final reporting with pharmacovigilance intelligence, Safety Management Plan preparation, case processing, safety writing, and regulatory submissions. You gain coordinated support for global trials, evolving local requirements, and time-sensitive safety operations.

Address clinical trial safety pressures early

Clinical trial safety work spans changing local requirements, rising data volumes, and strict reporting timelines. Cencora helps you manage these pressures with coordinated clinical safety support.
Navigate local requirements
Track evolving country-level and authority requirements so safety submissions, prerequisites, and cross-reporting activities stay aligned with local expectations. 
Manage growing case volume
Process increasing volumes of serious adverse events (SAEs), suspected unexpected serious adverse reactions (SUSARs), and related follow-up information without losing quality or timeliness.
Reduce reporting risk
Avoid delays, inconsistencies, and submission gaps that can affect inspections, regulatory compliance, participant protection, and study continuity. 

Comprehensive clinical safety support

You receive tailored support across the clinical development lifecycle, from project setup through case processing, aggregate reporting, and submissions.

Cencora coordinates the procedures, tools, training, and intelligence needed to run compliant clinical safety operations across global studies and prepare for later lifecycle transitions.

What we offer

Project oversight

Coordinate staffing, training, communication, timelines, and KPI strategy across sponsors, CROs” to “performance metrics across sponsors, contract research organizations (CROs).

PV intelligence

Monitor clinical safety requirements across countries and maintain structured intelligence on reporting rules, prerequisites, and submission pathways.

Study setup

Support database configuration, procedural documents, Safety Management Plans, study forms, and operational readiness for submissions. 

Case processing

Handle SAE, SUSAR, pregnancy, and adverse event of special interest (AESI) intake, follow-up, data entry, coding, narratives, and reporting workflows.

Safety writing

Prepare development safety update reports (DSURs), Investigational New Drug (IND) annual safety reports, line listings, and other aggregate reports.

Safety submissions

Submit SUSARs, DSURs, and related deliverables to authorities, ethics committees, review boards, and investigators as required.

Why choose Cencora for clinical trial safety

Global safety reach

Coordinate intelligence, case processing, writing, and submissions across global studies with regional and local support structures.

Integrated safety support

Use one team for setup, ongoing safety activities, aggregate reports, and related authorization support when programs evolve.

Flexible team models

Scale support for new projects, ad hoc requests, and multi-study programs without rebuilding internal operating models.

Expert insight


Companies will need proper surveillance and an acute awareness of the evolving safety landscape to stay compliant with changing regulations.

— Monica Buchberger, Ph.D., and Stephen Sun, MD, MPH

Bringing a product to market in the EU: PV considerations for non-EU companies

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PharmaLex is now Cencora

Clinical trial pharmacovigilance activities are part of our Commercialization support capability. Same team, same expertise, now with greater reach.
 

Need more information about clinical trial pharmacovigilance activities?

Our team of experts is here to assist you. Whether you have questions or need more detailed information, don’t hesitate to get in touch. We’re dedicated to providing the support you need.