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Rethinking What To Call The ‘Real World’

 
• By Sue Sutter

Stakeholders suggest a host of alternatives to what they see as the US FDA’s poor choice of words to describe studies intended to reflect actual clinical practice.

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The US FDA may want to rethink the terminology it uses for real-world studies. • Source: Shutterstock

The US Food and Drug Administration's terminology around real-world data and evidence is not going over well in the real world.

At the recent meeting Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy meeting on leveraging randomized trials to generate RWE, stakeholders suggested the...

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