FDA Guidance Emphasizes Randomized, Blinded Trials For PMAs
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Clinical studies in support of pre-market approval applications should ideally be randomized and blinded, FDA maintains in recent guidance.
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