Create & Confirm a Monitoring Visit

Who can complete this task? Veeva Clinical Basics: Vault Admin, Study Manager, Monitor

Monitoring Visits help ensure a study is conducted ethically and in compliance with regulations.

Veeva Clinical Basics supports the creation and conduct of Pre-Study, Site Initiation, Interim Monitoring, and Close Out Visits.

Create a Monitoring Visit

Creating a visit sets its status to Planning.

To create a monitoring visit:

  1. Navigate to the Study Management homepage. Use the study selector to navigate to the correct country and site.

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  2. In the Monitoring Plan section, click Create.

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  3. Select the Visit Type and click Continue.

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  4. Enter a Visit Name.

  5. Select the Monitor who will be attending the visit and click Save.

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The status of the visit is Planning.

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Confirm a Monitoring Visit

When you know the visit will take place, you can confirm the visit. Confirming a visit creates and classifies a Visit Confirmation letter in eTMF. When ready, this letter should be sent to the Principal Investigator.

Confirming a visit changes its status to Confirmed.

To confirm a monitoring visit:

  1. Navigate to the Study Management homepage. Use the study selector to navigate to the correct country and site.

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  2. In the Monitoring Plan section, click the Visit you want to confirm.

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  3. Open the Monitoring Visit Participants section. Site personnel are automatically added as visit participants. Click Create to add additional participants, if needed.

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  4. For each participant, set Invited? to Yes if they should be included in the Visit Confirmation letter that gets sent to the site ahead of the visit.

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  5. Open the Monitoring Activities section and review the list of activities planned for the visit. The activities will be listed in the Visit Confirmation letter.

    • Click Add to add an additional activity for the visit.

    • Hover over an activity and select Remove from the All Actions menu if it will not be done at this visit.

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  6. Select Confirm Monitoring Visit from the Workflow Actions menu.

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  7. Specify the Planned Start and End Date for the visit and click Start.

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What is the next step?

Start the Monitoring Visit