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Adding patient reported outcomes to Medicare’s oncology value-based payment model
2 January 2020 - On 1 November 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center released details of a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Dec 2019
Clarifying the meaning of clinically meaningful benefit in clinical research: noticeable change vs valuable change
2 December 2019 - Recent years have witnessed an increasing focus on the input of patients, their caregivers, or both to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Oct 2019
Patient experience data: researchers call for more consistency from FDA
14 October 2019 - Researchers at drug maker Sanofi are calling on the US FDA to make its publication of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Oct 2019
US Food and Drug Administration review of statistical analysis of patient-reported outcomes in lung cancer clinical trials approved between January, 2008, and December, 2017
1 October 2019 - With the advent of patient-focused drug development, the US FDA has redoubled its efforts to review patient-reported ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2019
AI needs patients’ voices in order to revolutionise health care
30 September 2019 - Patients’ stories — what doctors call patient histories — are the bedrock of medicine. “Listen to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2019
FDA issues draft guidance on patient-focused drug development: methods to identify what is important to patients
30 September 2019 - Today the U.S. FDA issued a draft guidance on Patient-Focused Drug Development: Methods to Identify What Is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Sep 2019
Health‐related quality of life in oncology drug reimbursement submissions in Canada: a review of submissions to the pan‐Canadian Oncology Drug Review
23 September 2019 - In Canada, CADTH evaluates and makes recommendations for the reimbursement of cancer drugs. One component of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2019
In praise of studies that use more than one generic preference-based measure
12 July 2019 - Generic preference-based measures of health-related quality of life are widely used as outcome measures in cost-effectiveness and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jul 2019
Validation of patient reported outcomes: a low bar
3 July 2019 - It used to be that if we wanted to assess a patient’s back pain, we would evaluate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jun 2019
The EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire for cancer patients (QLQ‐C30): Australian general population reference values
17 June 2019 - Mercieca‐Bebber and colleagues set out generate Australian general population reference values for the EORTC Quality of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 May 2019
FDA advances the science of patient input by seeking specific feedback on patient preferences that may impact regulatory decisions on medical devices
2 May 2019 - The U.S. FDA today opened a docket to receive input from stakeholders on a new priority ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jan 2019
A review of patient reported outcomes labelling for oncology drugs approved by the FDA and the EMA (2012-2016)
31 January 2019 - In recent years, the FDA has granted patient-reported outcome labelling to very few oncology drugs. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Sep 2018
BIO, Allergan and Roche call for FDA flexibility with patient experience data
13 September 2018 - Industry group BIO and biopharma companies Allergan and Roche are calling for the FDA to be ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Aug 2018
Statistical analysis of patient-reported outcome data in randomised controlled trials of locally advanced and metastatic breast cancer: a systematic review
1 September 2018 - Although patient-reported outcomes, such as health-related quality of life, are important endpoints in randomised controlled trials, there ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Aug 2018
Patient reported outcome measures in the FDA pilot compendium: meeting today’s standards for patient engagement in development?
7 August 2018 - In 2016, the FDA released a pilot clinical outcome assessment compendium intended to foster patient-focused drug development. ...