Benefit-Risk Tradeoffs in Assessment of New Drugs and Devices

Balancing benefits and risks is a complex task that poses a major challenge, both to the approval of new medicines and devices by regulatory authorities and in therapeutic decision-making in practice. Several analysis methods and visualization tools have been developed to help evaluate and communicate whether the benefit-risk profile is favorable or unfavorable. In this White Paper, we describe approaches to benefit-risk assessment using qualitative approaches such as the Benefit Risk Action Team framework developed by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and the Benefit-Risk Framework developed by the United States Food and Drug Administration; and quantitative approaches such as the numbers needed to treat for benefit and harm, the benefit-risk ratio, and Incremental Net Benefit. We give illustrative examples of benefit-risk evaluations using 4 treatment interventions including sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes; a direct antithrombin agent, dabigatran, for reducing stroke and systemic embolism in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation; transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients with symptomatic severe aortic valve stenosis; and antiplatelet agents vorapaxar and prasugrel for reducing cardiovascular events in patients at high cardiovascular risk. Regular applications of structured benefit-risk assessment, whether qualitative, quantitative, or both, enabled by easy-to-understand graphical presentations that capture uncertainties around the benefit-risk metric, may aid shared decision-making and enhance transparency of those decisions.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:142

Enthalten in:

Circulation - 142(2020), 20 vom: 17. Nov., Seite 1974-1988

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kaul, Sanjay [VerfasserIn]
Stockbridge, Norman [VerfasserIn]
Butler, Javed [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Benefit–risk assessment
Cardiovascular disease
Clinical trial
Evidence-based medicine
Fibrinolytic Agents
Hypoglycemic Agents
Journal Article
Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors
Review
Sodium-Glucose Transport Proteins
Statistical analysis

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 29.09.2021

Date Revised 29.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.048933

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM317637134