The USFDA defines real-world data (RWD) as ‘the data relating to patient health status and/or the healthcare delivery that is routinely collected from a variety of sources’, and real-world evidence (RWE) as ‘the clinical evidence regarding the usage and potential risks/benefits of a medical product obtained from analysis of RWD.’[1] RWD includes data from electronic […]
A patient registry has been defined as “an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition or exposure, and that serves a predetermined scientific, clinical or policy purpose.”(1) Patient registries provide an infrastructure for the standardized […]
The world today is observing an exponential growth in the volume and variety of the real-world data (RWD). Thanks to the technological advancements and the rise in the use of integrated electronic medical records (EMRs), RWD is ever more accessible and applicable in the regulatory domain as well as outcomes research. The evidence from randomized […]
