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Patient-Centric Approach: PRO Used in Medical Device Clinical Trials Guidance

03/08/2022

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a guidance “Principles for Selecting, Developing, Modifying and Adapting Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments for Use in Medical Device Clinical Evaluation” in January 2022. This and a related guidance, “Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Use in Medical Product Development to Support Labeling Claims” from December 2009 are part of an initiative by the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) to incorporate the use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in evaluating medical devices. The guidance does not replace the Patient-Focused Drug Development (PFDD) guidance series.

New Patient-Centered Drug Development Guidance – Collecting Input

03/01/2022

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a final guidance “Patient-Focused Drug Development: Methods to Identify What Is Important to Patients” in February 2022. This is second in a series of guidance related to a patient centered approach to drug development. The first guidance in the series, “Patient-Focused Drug Development: Collecting Comprehensive and Representative Input”, was finalized June 2020. These guidance documents are aligned with the 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) of 2016 requirement for patient-focused drug development (PFDD). The guidance documents clarify how patient experience data collected from patients can best be used for drug development and regulatory applications. The June 2020 guidance discusses best practices for the methods of data collection that ensure accurate and representative experience data and goes further into patient experience data, which includes their experiences, perspectives, needs, and priorities.