Efforts by drug companies to streamline and improve the execution of clinical study designs-to counter mounting costs and shorten development times associated with bringing new drugs to market-are yielding positive benefits.
Efforts by drug companies to streamline and improve the execution of clinical study designs-to counter mounting costs and shorten development times associated with bringing new drugs to market-are yielding positive benefits, according to an assessment recently completed by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development and reported in the September/October Tufts CSDD Impact Report.
According to Tufts CSDD, greater emphasis by drug sponsors on upfront planning and governance to assess and challenge protocol feasibility and new approaches to development, including facilitated review mechanisms and greater use of adaptive trial designs, are helping to improve data quality and success rates, while cutting costs. Other findings from the analysis, include the following:
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