Data that is collected by family or friends and is intended to provide information about patients’ experiences with a disease or condition. Patient experience data can be interpreted as information that captures patients’ experiences, perspectives, needs, and priorities related to (but not limited to):
- the symptoms of their condition and its natural history;
- the impact of the conditions on their functioning and quality of life;
- their experience with treatments;
- input on which outcomes are important to them;
- patient preferences for outcomes and treatments;
- and the relative importance of any issue as defined by patients.
- FDA-Collecting patient experience data: how you can best help FDA? https://www.fda.gov/media/112163/download
More resources
- EMA-Patient experience data in EU medicines development and regulatory decision-making Outcome of the workshop on 21 st September 2022: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/other/executive-summary-patient-experience-data-eu-medicines-development-regulatory-decision-making_en.pdf
