Accelerated Approval Under Review By US FDA: Completing Confirmatory Trials A Focus
Executive Summary
Top officials want confirmatory trials to finish in a ‘reasonable amount of time’ and worry that ‘if 100% of them were able to confirm, then the bar’s too high.’
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