Many of the world’s pharmaceutical companies (65% at last count) use QualityMetric’s products and services to help develop, evaluate and market new medical products. For years, the SF health surveys have been used in clinical trials. Increasingly, they are being used before the clinical trial to determine market needs and after FDA approval to monitor patients and engage consumers.

This article, The Trial Never Ends, published in Drug Discovery and Development in August of 2009 relates several examples worth considering.

The full article is available at this link: http://www.qualitymetric.com/Portal....11.09.pdf