CATIE: Learning to Live With large Comparative Trials
• By Cole Werble
Pharma has come a long way in the last three years in developing tactics to respond to large, government-funded comparative clinical trials. Aggressive and well-prepared responses by the antipsychotic manufacturers to the CATIE comparison of four atypical brands to perphenazine changed what could have been a threatening study into an event for publicizing the strengths of individual brands.
By Cole Werble
The media grabbed its message quickly.
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