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About this guideline
Overseas effective date: November 2005
Note: This should be read together with ICH guideline E14 - the clinical evaluation of QT/QTc interval prolongation and proarrhythmic potential for non-antiarrhythmic drugs (R3) – questions and answers (ICH14 Q&As; EMA/CHMP/ICH/310133/2008).
Categories: ICH | Efficacy
Clinical efficacy and safety | Cardiovascular system | Arrythmias
TGA annotations:
QT prolongation would be of regulatory concern if either the estimated QT prolongation was >5ms OR the upper bound of the 95% confidence interval was >10msude references to EU legislation (including EC Directives and Regulations), the requirements contained in the referenced EU legislation are not applicable to the evaluation of medicines by the TGA.
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