Utilisation of a common benefit-risk framework: Can it facilitate decision making and improve communication within and across agencies?
2-3 February 2015, Taipei, Chinese Taipei
The aim of this workshop was to discuss the utility of a systematic structured approach to benefit-risk assessment and agencies’ experience with its use and how the framework might aid a better understanding both within and across regulatory agencies of how benefit-risk decisions are made as well as how this can facilitate communication with companies and other stakeholders.
Workshop objectives
- Identify the processes, procedures and considerations that agencies undertake to make benefit-risk decisions for their jurisdiction and how these processes are documented
- Discuss how utilisation of a structured, systematic benefit-risk framework and its documentation within Asian regulatory agencies can aid both the process and communication within and across agencies
- Recommend how a benefit-risk framework can be best used to optimise internal decision making and external communication of the decision