Food and Drug Administration advisory committees

Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committees -- Copyright -- Preface -- NOTES -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Summary -- The Roles of FDA Advisory Committees -- Practical Limits on Advisory Committees -- COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP -- Nomination Criteria -- Recruitment Procedures -- Consumer Members -- Appointment Authority -- Administrative Responsibility for Appointments -- COMMITTEE INTEGRITY -- Options Requiring Legislation -- Options Available within Existing Authority -- COMMITTEE OPERATIONS -- Scheduling Meetings -- Meeting Preparation -- General Criteria for Setting the Agenda -- Setting Specific Agendas -- Timely Distribution of Materials -- Summaries of Materials Sent to Advisory Committees -- Use of Primary Reviewers -- Communications Issues -- Conducting an Advisory Committee Meeting -- Allocation and Control of Agenda Time -- Electronic Coverage of Meetings -- Voting -- Agency Neutrality -- Custom Tailoring of Committee Membership -- Meeting Follow-up -- ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT -- System Management -- Compensation -- Orientation and Training -- AGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY -- Agency Management -- Agency Accountability -- A CONCLUDING RECOMMENDATION -- NOTES -- 1 Introduction -- ORIGINS OF THE STUDY -- STUDY OBJECTIVES -- SCOPE OF THE STUDY -- THE ROLES OF FDA ADVISORY COMMITTEES -- PRACTICAL LIMITS ON THE USE OF ADVISORY COMMITTEES -- THE FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT -- STUDY METHODS -- REPORT ORGANIZATION -- A NOTE ON CROSS-NATINOAL COMPARISONS -- APPENDIX -- NOTE -- 2 Historical Evolution of FDA Advisory Committees -- DRUGS -- Drug Efficacy Study -- Over-the-Counter Drugs -- Prescription Drug Review -- Summary -- BIOLOGICS -- MEDICAL DEVICES -- The Cooper Report -- The Medical Device Amendments of 1976 -- NIH STUDY SECTIONS -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- 3 The FDA Advisory Committee System.