Patient Safety First But India’s ‘Interim Compensation’ Trial Rule May Spook Sponsors
Executive Summary
India’s draft new drugs and clinical trials rules come with a prickly "no claims" clause pertaining to payment of “interim compensation” by sponsors in specific circumstances, based on an initial causality assessment by ethics committees (ECs). The new rules, at least in their current form, also give ECs near "quasi- regulatory powers" say some experts.
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