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Patient-Focused Drug Development: US FDA 'Needs To Be Brave,' Tell Sponsors What Works Best

 
• By Brenda Sandburg

At public workshop, FDA says it will be flexible on clinical outcome assessments but stakeholders want agency to specify no-no's; digital health technology is appropriate to get more accurate endpoints, agency says.

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Sponsors want the US FDA to specify the best practices to pursue in patient-focused drug development and in what instances the agency will not be flexible. That was one of the messages that came out of a two-day public workshop intended to help the agency develop a series of guidances.

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