FDA public meeting

FDA will hold a public meeting to discuss the creation of a private and public sector post-market safety network titled "Sentinel Network," the agency announces in the Jan. 18 Federal Register. The meeting, which will be held March 7 and 8, will identify the "obstacles to facilitators and incentives for developing the data collection and risk identification and analysis components." FDA says "such a network would integrate existing and planned efforts to collect, analyze and disseminate medical product safety information to health care practitioners and patients at the point-of-care." FDA announced a similar online initiative in February 2006 for a second generation Adverse Event Reporting System (1"The Tan Sheet," Feb. 20, 2006, p. 5)...