England’s NICE Leads Global Effort On Surrogate Endpoints For Cost-Effectiveness

Health technology assessment bodies in England, the US, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and Colombia have joined forces to produce guidance for drug developers on using surrogate endpoints for cost-effectiveness analyses.

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An international working group led by England’s health technology assessment (HTA) agency NICE has produced best practice guidance for drugmakers on how to select surrogate endpoints and check that these are suitable for evidence submissions in the context of cost-effectiveness.

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