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Drug Safety: FDA Has Begun Efforts to Enhance Postmarket Safety, but Additional Actions are Needed

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By Marcia Crosse (au)
Year: 2009
Pages: 53
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 1437926835

Description

There have been long-standing concerns regarding the Food and Drug Admin.'s (FDA) oversight of postmarket drug safety. There were concerns such as limitations in the data FDA relies on to identify postmarket drug safety issues and the systems it uses to track such issues. Recommendations were made, including that FDA improve the independence of its program for resolving scientific disputes related to postmarket drug safety. This report examines the steps that FDA is taking to: (1) enhance its processes for making decisions about the safety of marketed drugs; (2) improve access to data that help the agency identify drug safety issues; and (3) build its capacity to fulfill its postmarket drug safety workload. Includes recomm. Illus.

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