Simple, Cartoon-Friendly SOPs Lead to Higher Rates of Compliance: Experts

Succinct, simply worded standard operating procedures (SOPs) that can be expressed in cartoon or flowchart format lead to higher rates of compliance, pharma experts say. Inadequate process implementation is the top reason why drugmakers get slapped with warning letters, so it’s important that SOPs are task-specific and easy for a user to understand, Mukesh Kumar, a senior director at contract research group Amarex Clinical Research, said. Companies should ask themselves if their SOPs are simple enough to make into a cartoon, Kumar said during a webinar on effective SOPs hosted by the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society.      
Washington Drug Letter