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Abstract
Process that is gone through in order for a drug to receive approval by a government regulatory agency. This includes any required pre-clinical or clinical testing, review, submission, and evaluation of the applications and test results, and post-marketing surveillance of the drug.
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- Food and Drug Administration Drug Approval
- Approval, Drug
- Approvals, Drug
- Drug Approvals
- Drug Approval Process
- Food and Drug Administration Drug Approval Process
- New Drug Approval
- New Drug Approval Process
- Approval Process, Drug
- Approval Processes, Drug
- Approval, New Drug
- Approvals, New Drug
- Drug Approval Processes
- Drug Approval, New
- Drug Approvals, New
- New Drug Approvals
- Process, Drug Approval
- Processes, Drug Approval
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Indexed with the subheadings economics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration.
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Indexing Annotation
by govt regulatory agency, U.S. (not restricted to FDA) or foreign
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QV 771
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Drug Approval. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017277. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017277
- Drug Approval. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42214612