What’s the FDA up to on Patient Focused Drug Development (PFDD) these days?
What’s the FDA up to on Patient-Focused Drug Development (PFDD) these days? By Kathleen Hoffman, PhD MSPH Part of the FDA’s mandate in implementing the “21st Century Cures Act” is ensuring the incorporation of patient experience data into drug development. They’ve hit the deadline for another Patient Focused Drug Development (PFDD) Guidance document, so let’s look at the status. Background The Agency is in the process of issuing four PFDD guidance documents to “address, in a stepwise manner, how stakeholders can collect and submit patient experience data” for medical product development and regulatory decision-making.1 Draft Guidance [...]