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Understanding the Benefits and Risks of Pharmaceuticals - Workshop Summary (Paperback)
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Understanding the Benefits and Risks of Pharmaceuticals - Workshop Summary (Paperback)
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All pharmaceutical products have inherent risks, and their use
involves trade-offs between their therapeutic benefits and their
risks. However, the public has a limited understanding of the
benefits and risks of drugs, and many individuals believe that
drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) carry
no risks. The FDA is responsible for evaluating and balancing the
potential risks of drugs with their potential benefits. Assessing,
managing, and communicating the benefit-risk profile of a
pharmaceutical product is a complex and nuanced scientific,
political, and sociological challenge. Once the assessment is made,
the FDA is then responsible for managing how to communicate these
risks and make healthcare decisions based on them.
To explore these issues, the Forum on Drug Discovery, Development,
and Translation conducted a public workshop entitled Understanding
the Benefits and Risks of Pharmaceuticals, with the broad goals of
gaining a better understanding of the current system used to
evaluate benefit and risk, and to identify opportunities for
improvement. This workshop was held in Washington, D.C., on May
30-31, 2006. The benefit-risk profiles of pharmaceuticals are
constantly evolving as new data are collected throughout the life
cycle of a drug. Discussions during the workshop focused on the
following: (1) premarket assessment, during which clinical trial
data are used to assess benefit and risk; (2) communication of that
information to prescribing physicians and their patients; (3)
healthcare decisions made by prescribing physicians and their
patients; and (4) the accumulation of benefit-risk information from
postmarketing experience, which feeds back into the other phases.
Understanding the Benefits and Risks of Pharmaceuticals: Workshop
Summary explains in detail the discussions during this workshop.
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