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Medical Affairs’ Search for Meaning

Maarten Beekman, MD;Alexander Bedenkov, MD, PhD;Filip Surmont, MD
October 1st 2018

The need to look beyond the function’s traditional performance measures to the one that really matters-patient outcomes.


Medical Affairs’ Search for Meaning

Medical Affairs’ Search for Meaning

Maarten Beekman, MD;Alexander Bedenkov, MD, PhD;Filip Surmont, MD
April 25th 2018

A description of the changing role of the medical affairs function in pharmaceutical companies and the subsequent evolution to a never ending measurement of the output of medical affairs. How to overcome this quest for sometimes meaningless numbers to justify its existence.

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