Patient Advocacy 3.0: Outreach Stretches to First Stages of Regulatory Development
This article was originally published in RPM Report
Executive Summary
FDA is ready to bring patient voices and perspectives into the drug approval framework. Practically, that means that drug sponsors will have to develop new skills and structures for working with a familiar stakeholder group at an unfamiliar point in the drug development process. The new challenge was a major theme at PhRMA’s 2012 Annual Meeting.
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