Good clinical laboratory practice explained

Good clinical laboratory practice (GCLP) is a GxP guideline for laboratory samples from clinical studies.

Good clinical practice (GCP) does not define requirements for laboratories and good laboratory practice (GLP) focusses on pre-clinical analyses and not on human samples from clinical trials. The Research Quality Association (RQA) suggested in 2003 a guideline to close the gap. Later the World Health Organization and the British Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency issued their own versions of a GCLP guideline.

Literature

• WHO Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP)
• Stevens W. (2003) Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP): The need for a hybrid of Good Laboratory Practice and Good Clinical Practice guidelines/standards for medical testing laboratories conducting clinical trials in developing countries. Quality Assurance, 10: 83–89.
• Grant, Vanessa and Stiles, Tim, Research Quality Association (2003 and revised in 2012), Good Clinical Laboratory Practice

External links

• WHO Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) (11 Oct 2010)
• MHRA guidance on the maintenance of regulatory compliance in laboratories that perform the analysis or evaluation of clinical trial samples (11 Oct 2010)
• Research Quality Association (RQA)
• Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP)