Project Pragmatica: US FDA’s OCE Initiative Aims To Encourage Simple Clinical Trials
Executive Summary
OCE Director Richard Pazdur says idea for the latest initiative stemmed from a clinical trial in lung cancer that he thought only needed to measure the impact on overall survival.
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