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Reflection paper on the Regulatory Guidance For The Use Of health -Related Quality Of Life (HRQoL) Measures In The Evaluation Of Medicinal Products |
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European Medicines Agency (EMA), Commitee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), 2005.
The scope of this reflection paper is to discuss the place that a health-related quality of life (HRQL), a specific type of PRO, may have in drug evaluation process and to give some broad recommendations on its use in the context of already existing guidance documents.