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GUIDANCE DOCUMENT

Principles for Selecting, Developing, Modifying, and Adapting Patient-Reported Outcome Instruments for Use in Medical Device Evaluation Draft Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff, And Other Stakeholders August 2020

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Not for implementation. Contains non-binding recommendations.

Docket Number:
FDA-2020-D-1564
Issued by:
Guidance Issuing Office
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

The objectives of this guidance are to:

  1. Describe principles that may be considered when using PRO instruments in the evaluation of medical devices (Section III);
  2. Provide recommendations about the importance of ensuring the PRO instruments are fit-for-purpose (Section III), and;
  3. Outline best practices to help ensure relevant, reliable, and sufficiently robust PRO instruments are developed, modified, or adapted using the least burdensome approach (Section IV).

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