DIA 2013 49th Annual Meeting
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Developing a Patient Aid to Make Information about Treatment Benefits, Harms and Uncertainties Meaningful to Individual Patients and Enhance Their Decisions
Track : Track 14: Clinical Safety and Pharmacovigilance
Program Code: 381
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM  EST
Location: 153AB
CHAIR :
Marcin Boruk, MBA,MSc (SCHAGY), Senior Policy Analyst, Health Canada, Canada
SPEAKER (S):
Linda Wilhelm, (SPKSUP), Consumer Advisory Council, Canadian Arthritis Network, Canada
Louise Binder, (SPKSUP), Patient Advocate, International Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS, Canada
Description
An updated version of the Patient Decision Aid, a tool which will have undergone preliminary field testing with regional Canadian patient focus groups, will be presented, and this will be followed by open discussion. The session will: 1) raise awareness across the decision-making health community about recent drug regulatory science innovations driving a patient-focused approach; and 2) be a springboard to trigger further engineering of applications for these trends for use across the community.