EMA Consults On Proposed Framework For Patient Preference Studies

The EMA is inviting feedback on its plans to ratify, with some caveats, a new framework on how to use patient preferences as input in medical product decision-making. The framework was developed under the EU’s public-private Innovative Medicines Initiative.

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The European Medicines Agency has issued for consultation its draft opinion on a proposed framework that explains how drug and device companies can design patient preference studies to support their use in regulatory and health technology assessment (HTA) decision-making.

The framework was developed by PREFER (Patient Preferences in Benefit-Risk Assessments during the Drug Life Cycle), a research project under...

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