The patient perspective
PREFER looks at how and when it is best to perform and include patient preferences in decision making during the medical product life cycle. We include patient stakeholders at every level of the project. The end-result will be recommendations to support development of guidelines for industry, Regulatory Authorities and HTA bodies.
News from the PREFER project
- Stakeholders’ preferred characteristics of preference measurement methods identified 2023-01-10
- Preventive treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis is personal 2022-10-11
- CIOMS report on patient involvement covers patient preferences 2022-09-26
- Patient preferences for treatments to prevent Rheumatoid Arthritis 2022-09-07
- What it means to receive a positive EMA qualification opinion for the PREFER framework 2022-09-05
The PREFER Recommendations
Supporting the development of guidelines for structured patient input into decision-making for the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory authorities, health technology assessment bodies and reimbursement agencies!
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Developing recommendations
We are developing evidence-based recommendations to guide industry, regulatory authorities, HTA bodies, reimbursement agencies, and health care professionals. We start with work to assess methodologies. After that, we test them in clinical case studies. This work will be the basis for the recommendations we make.
Together with stakeholders
PREFER is a public-private partnership with collaboration at every level, making sure we get more than one perspective on everything we do. We have stakeholder partners from Health Technology Assessment bodies and patient organisations. We are also working closely with regulators to ensure recommendations are evidence based, relevant and useful.
Through clinical case studies
We are running three core PREFER patient preference studies looking at lung cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and neuromuscular disorders. Both academic and industry partners have added studies to the PREFER portfolio that will help us cover different disease areas, methods and research questions.
Finding out what patients prefer
Patient Preferences in Benefit-Risk Assessments during the Drug Life Cycle (PREFER) is a five year public-private research project where academic researchers, HTA, patient organisations, and the pharmaceutical industry work together to find out when, and how patients’ treatment preferences can be used in medical product development.
We are looking forward to sharing our findings with you!
Mats G. Hansson, Uppsala University, Coordinator
Conny Berlin, Novartis, Project Leader
Innovative Medicines Initiative
PREFER is funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI): a part of the EU Horizon 2020 Programme.
European Union
The academic research in PREFER is funded by Horizon 2020: the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
EFPIA
The pharmaceutical industry contributes equally to the PREFER project. Industry input to the IMI programme is organised by EFPIA.