FDA Wants Your Pain Points: New Guide for Patient-Centric Drug Tools
Published Date: 11/18/2025
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Summary
The FDA just released new guidance to help drug makers and researchers better include patient experiences when creating or updating tools that measure how well treatments work. This means patients, caregivers, and industry folks can share real-world info to make drug development more patient-friendly. The guidance is effective now and aims to speed up smarter, more meaningful medical product decisions without extra costs.
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Patients Can Submit Experience Data
You (patients, caregivers, researchers, and medical product developers) can collect and submit patient experience and caregiver information to the FDA to be used for medical product development and regulatory decision-making. The final guidance, announced November 18, 2025, explains how to select, develop, or modify clinical outcome assessments that measure outcomes important to patients.
Guidance Adds No New Paperwork
The guidance contains no new collection of information under the Paperwork Reduction Act and instead refers to previously approved OMB collections, including control numbers such as 0910-0078, 0910-0332, 0910-0231, 0910-0120, 0910-0844, 0910-0756, 0910-0449, 0910-0001, 0910-0338, 0910-0014, 0910-0130, 0910-0303, and 0910-0429. That means the guidance itself does not create new reporting requirements for regulated parties.
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