FDA's Janet Wood­cock: the clin­i­cal tri­als sys­tem is 'bro­ken'

The clin­i­cal tri­als sys­tem is “bro­ken” and there needs to be new ways to col­lect and uti­lize pa­tient da­ta, Janet Wood­cock, di­rec­tor of FDA’s Cen­ter for Drug Eval­u­a­tion and Re­search, told a work­shop at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­mies of Sci­ences, En­gi­neer­ing, and Med­i­cine to­day.

The com­ment came at the end of Wood­cock’s talk in which she al­so not­ed that use of mas­ter pro­to­cols (pro­to­cols for tri­als that look at mul­ti­ple ther­a­pies in a sin­gle dis­ease or a sin­gle treat­ment in mul­ti­ple dis­eases) and the de­vel­op­ment of new clin­i­cal tri­al net­works “need to be the fu­ture.”

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