Real-World Data: FDA Expounds On Use Of Registries, Challenges In Standardization

Final guidance on assessing registries notes responsibility of sponsors to ensure reliability of data from other organizations and reduce loss of participants to follow-up, while final guidance on data standards for RWD acknowledges sponsors may have limited access to a study’s data sources.

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The US Food and Drug Administration closed out the year with the issuance of two final guidances on the use of real-world data, both of which provide minor changes to draft guidances issued in the fall of 2021.

The final guidance entitled “Real-World Data: Assessing Registries to Support Regulatory Decision-Making for Drug and Biological Products,” specifies what...

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