title: The clinical pharmacologist in drug regulation: a European perspective.
abstract: 1. The clinical pharmacologist in drug regulation has many roles to play. These include responsibilities for the premarketing assessment of a new product's efficacy and safety, for scrutiny of the summary of Product Characteristics, and for monitoring its performance after marketing. Furthermore, the clinical pharmacologist has a subsidiary responsibility in examining the results of preclinical pharmacological and toxicological studies. 2. Clinical pharmacologists in regulatory authorities have one further, and crucial, responsibility--humility. From their training and experience they will (or should) know of their own scientific limitations and of the necessity for seeking help and advice from other disciplines.
authors.affiliation: Wolfson Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Rawlins
mesh_terms: D016907:Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems; D005060:Europe; D007880:Legislation, Drug / Q000639:trends*; D010601:Pharmacology, Clinical; D000078329:Workforce