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01-02-2012 | HSS Osteoarthritis Symposium: Frontiers in OA
Patient Evaluation and OA Study Design: OARSI/Biomarker Qualification
Author:
Virginia Byers Kraus, MD, PhD
Published in:
HSS Journal ®
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Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
Qualification is defined as the “graded, ‘fit-for-purpose’ evidentiary process linking a biomarker with biology and clinical endpoints” [
5]. As recently defined by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), “qualification is a conclusion that within the stated context (manner and purpose) of use, the results of assessment with a drug development tool (DDT) can be relied upon to have a specific interpretation and application in drug development and regulatory decision making” [
3]. …