EMA Enlists GPs’ Help To Generate More Real-World Evidence
Executive Summary
The generation of more real world evidence on medicines is one of the aims of a newly announced collaboration that will see family doctors playing a bigger role in providing data for the European Medicines Agency to use in its drug evaluation activities.
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