Benefit-Risk Assessment in Medical Product Development
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Faculty: Tommi Tervonen, PhD, Kielo Research, Zug, ZG, Switzerland Martin Ho, MS, Biostatistician, San Francisco, CA, USA
Quantitative assessments of benefits and harms of medical products can inform drug and device developers, regulators, health technology assessors, and other health professionals to make better health-related decisions. Quantitative benefit-risk assessment differs from qualitative assessments by incorporating explicit outcome weighting into the analysis. This course will introduce multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) based methods for quantitative benefit-risk assessment with real-life examples. We will describe the history and go through emerging good research practices of benefit-risk assessment, including how patient preference data can be incorporated. The course will explain step by step how to develop quantitative benefit-risk model with a case study. This course is based on the principles of the ISPOR Benefit Risk Assessment Emerging Good Practices Task Force Report.