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Good Practice in the Postmarketing Surveillance of Medicines.

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In addition to Good Clinical Trial Practice for the study of experimental drugs, regulations are also needed for good practice in the assessment of medicines after approval (Good PMS Practice, GPP). GPP has to protect the interests of public health at large as well as those of individual patients, investigators and pharmaceutical companies. GPP may be the natural way to solve threatening conflicts between privacy legislation and the public interest.

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Meyboom, R. Good Practice in the Postmarketing Surveillance of Medicines.. Pharm World Sci 19, 186–190 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008610722972

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