Title: Technological innovation
Description: This paper is intended to serve as a background document to this workshop. Its objective is to provide a comparative analysis of present day evaluative strategies employed in the development of new drugs (Chapter 2), medical devices (Chapter 3), and clinical procedures (Chapter 4). Chapter 5 considers the implications of these strategies for the development process and concludes with some opportunities for improving both the effective and efficient translation of biomedical research findings into clinical practice.
Subjects: Pharmaceutical Technology, Trends, Equipment and Supplies, Drug Industry, Clinical Trials as Topic, Drug Evaluation