Bellinda L King-Kallimanis, Melanie Calvert, David Cella, Kim Cocks, Corneel Coens, Diane Fairclough, Lynn Howie, Pall Jonsson, Nirosha Mahendraratnam, Julia Maues, Sinan Sarac, Jim Shaw, Nichelle Stigger, Peter Trask, Beate Wieseler
Patient-reported outcome (PRO) data are critical in understanding treatments from the patient perspective in cancer clinical trials. The potential benefits and methodological approaches to the collection of PRO data following treatment discontinuation (e.g., due to progressive disease or unacceptable drug toxicity) are less clear. In 2020, the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE) and the Critical Path Institute (C-Path) co-sponsored a 2-hour virtual roundtable session to discuss this specific issue. In this article, we summarize key points from this discussion with 16 stakeholders representing academia, clinical practice, patients, international regulatory agencies, health technology assessment bodies/payers, industry, and PRO instrument development...
July 6, 2023: Value in Health: the Journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research