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Use of surrogate endpoints in health technology assessment: a review of selected NICE technology appraisals in oncology
19 February 2025 - Surrogate endpoints, used to substitute for and predict final clinical outcomes, are increasingly being used to support ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jan 2025
International collaboration provides new guidance on the use of surrogate outcomes in cost effectiveness analysis
17 January 2025 - Recommendations will help organisations that evaluate new drugs establish whether their use will result in longer-term benefits ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jan 2025
International collaboration provides new guidance on the use of surrogate endpoints in cost effectiveness analysis
9 January 2025 - Recommendations will help organisations that appraise new drugs establish whether their use will result in longer-term ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Sep 2024
Breakthrough therapies approved based on surrogate endpoints often lack post-marketing requirements
4 September 2024 - The use of surrogate markers to support drug approvals without requiring postmarketing studies can “hinder accurate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 May 2024
FDA use of “proxies” to expedite drug approvals not supported by evidence, analysis finds
28 May 2024 - In the world of drug development, there has been a recent movement to speed clinical trials of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Apr 2024
Associations between surrogate markers and clinical outcomes for non-oncologic chronic disease treatments
22 April 2024 - What is the strength of association between surrogate markers used as primary outcomes in clinical trials ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Apr 2023
How ‘surrogate outcomes’ influence long-term health outcomes
13 April 2023 - NICE working with international organisations to develop guidance. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Dec 2022
You're cured till you're not: should disease-free survival be used as a regulatory or clinical endpoint for adjuvant therapy of cancer?
9 December 2022 - Recent commentary reviewing the use of biologics or other novel molecules tested in the adjuvant setting for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Apr 2022
Digital Medicine Society launches toolkit to support reimbursement for new drugs developed using digital outcomes
4 April 2022 - New essential resources ensure that patients will benefit without delay following regulatory acceptance of digital outcomes. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Mar 2022
Progression-free survival: it is time for a new name
1 March 2022 - Progression-free survival refers to the time from randomisation or initiation of treatment to the occurrence of disease ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jan 2022
Beyond survival: the US FDA confirms surrogate end points for patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukaemia treated with intensive chemotherapy
10 January 2022 - The treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia has rapidly evolved over the past decade. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Sep 2021
Should regulatory authorities approve drugs based on surrogate outcomes?
16 September 2021 - The aducanumab controversy is the latest example of surrogate outcomes failing to predict clinically important outcomes. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2021
Raising the bar for using surrogate outcomes in drug regulation and health technology assessment
16 September 2021 - Surrogate outcomes provide no guarantee of clinical benefit, and Dalia Dawoud and colleagues argue they should ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Aug 2021
Final guidance on metastasis-free survival in non-metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer released by the FDA
10 August 2021 - The FDA announced its finalised guidance on the use of metastases-free survival as an outcome for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Feb 2021
Clinical relevance of patient-reported outcomes: new threshold proves to be practical
18 February 2021 - Current examples show that the 15% threshold newly set by IQWiG for the recognition of responder analyses ...