Original Articles
Vol. 67 No. 1 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2018.526
Dare voce ai pazienti nella ricerca sulle malattie rare e sui famaci orfani / Giving patients a voice in the rare diseases and orphan drugs research
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Received: 23 March 2018
Accepted: 23 March 2018
Published: 23 March 2018
Accepted: 23 March 2018
Published: 23 March 2018
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This paper aims to highlight the potentiality and criticality of including patients' perspective in rare diseases and orphan drugs research. In the first part, we propose an epistemological analysis of individual narrations of disease experience as they are used in scientific research and clinical trials. With the help of narrative medicine approach, this analysis points out theoretical and operational challenges of a perspective that includes patient's subjectivity and illness experience. Furthermore, it reveals the significance of patients' standpoints in general and in rare diseases as well as in the orphan drugs research. The second part of our article focuses on the role of the Patient reported Outcomes (PROs) - which are measures for the health's overall assessment based on patient's perspective - by investigating the impact on clinical trials for rare diseases. In this context, illness stories, which are collected and promoted by institutional sources and patients' associations, contribute to underline important critical issues at stake in the employment of patient-centered outcomes both in new drugs and in the treatments development. Moreover, these stories are crucial to elaborate documents and recommendations concerning the use of PROs for the rare patients' community welfare.
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Dare voce ai pazienti nella ricerca sulle malattie rare e sui famaci orfani / Giving patients a voice in the rare diseases and orphan drugs research. (2018). Medicina E Morale, 67(1), 25-40. https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2018.526
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