Published in:
01-08-2017 | Commentary
Giving Patients a Meaningful Voice in United States Regulatory Decision Making: The Role for Health Preference Research
Authors:
F. Reed Johnson, Kathleen Beusterien, Semra Özdemir, Leslie Wilson
Published in:
The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
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Issue 4/2017
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Excerpt
Weighing the benefits and risks of new health technologies requires assessing the available scientific evidence but also making societal value judgments about the relative importance of those benefits and risks [
1]. Such judgments traditionally have been delegated to physicians. Increasingly, however, patients are claiming a greater role in such assessments. This paper discusses the increasing concern of the US FDA in strengthening patient engagement by conducting health preference research (HPR) on patients’ risk tolerance. …