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ArticleClinical pharmacology and therapeutics2022

When Can We Rely on Real-World Evidence to Evaluate New Medical Treatments?

Gregory E Simon, Richard Platt, Jonathan H Watanabe, Andrew B Bindman, Alex John London, Michael Horberg, Adrian Hernandez, Robert M Califf

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Article in Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Gregory E SimonKaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute.
Richard PlattHarvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard Medical School.
Jonathan H WatanabeSchool of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California Irvine.
Andrew B BindmanKaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals.
Alex John LondonPhilosophy Department & Center for Ethics and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University.
Michael HorbergKaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic Permanente Research Institute, Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group.
Adrian HernandezDuke Clinical Research Institute.
Robert M CaliffVerily Life Sciences and Google Health.

Funding

SSRI's and SuicidalityU19MH092201 · NIMH · KAISER FOUNDATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI SIMON, GREGORY E. · 2010 to 2018
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NIMH NIH HHS U19 MH092201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Concerns regarding both the limited generalizability and the slow pace of traditional randomized trials have led to calls for greater use of real-world evidence (RWE) in the evaluation of new treatments or products. The RWE label has been used to refer to a variety of departures from the methods of traditional randomized controlled trials. Recognizing this complexity and potential confusion, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine convened a series of workshops to clarify and address questions regarding the use of RWE to evaluate new medical treatments. Those workshops identified three specific dimensions in which RWE studies might differ from traditional clinical trials: use of real-world data (data extracted from health system records or data captured by mobile devices), delivery of real-world treatment (open-label treatments delivered in community settings by community practitioners), and real-world treatment assignment (including nonrandomized comparisons and variations on random assignment such as before-after or stepped-wedge designs). For any RWE study, decisions regarding each of these dimensions depends on the specific research question, characteristics of the potential study settings, and characteristics of the settings where study results would be applied.

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Decision MakingResearch DesignDelivery of Health CareElectronic Health RecordsEvidence-Based PracticeHumansTherapeutics

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PMID33895994
PMCPMC8251042

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