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FDA Facilitated Regulatory Pathways: Visualizing Their Characteristics, Development, and Authorization Timelines

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Pharmacology, April 2017
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Title
FDA Facilitated Regulatory Pathways: Visualizing Their Characteristics, Development, and Authorization Timelines
Published in
Frontiers in Pharmacology, April 2017
DOI 10.3389/fphar.2017.00161
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Authors

Lawrence Liberti, Magda Bujar, Alasdair Breckenridge, Jarno Hoekman, Neil McAuslane, Pieter Stolk, Hubert Leufkens

Abstract

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has four facilitated regulatory pathways (FRPs): Fast Track (FT), Breakthrough Therapy (BTD), Priority Review (PR), and Accelerated Approval (AA). Only PR specifies an expedited review timeline (6 months). We sought to determine to what extent the combination of two or more FRPs influenced development and approval times. We developed a "metro map" to illustrate FRP elements and their influence on review times. We assessed 125 new active substances (approved January 2013 to December 2015) 74 of which used one or more FRPs. For these 74, development times ranged from 1,458 (BTD + PR + AA) to 3,515 days (PR). PR alone had a median approval time of 242 days. The most common combination was FT + PR (median approval 292 days, n = 21). The fastest approval times were for PR + FT + BTD + AA (145 days) and PR + BTD + AA (166 days). Our findings support the combination of FRPs for shortening development and review times beyond that provided by PR alone.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 32 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 19%
Other 5 16%
Researcher 4 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Student > Bachelor 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 11 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 22%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 13%
Social Sciences 3 9%
Unspecified 1 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 5 16%
Unknown 11 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 May 2022.
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#3,397,212
of 24,226,848 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Pharmacology
#1,560
of 18,093 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#61,341
of 312,791 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Pharmacology
#24
of 202 outputs
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