EMA Consults On Proposed Framework For Patient Preference Studies
Executive Summary
The EMA is inviting feedback on its plans to ratify, with some caveats, a new framework on how to use patient preferences as input in medical product decision-making. The framework was developed under the EU’s public-private Innovative Medicines Initiative.
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