Interpretation and Impact of Real-World Clinical Data for the Practicing Clinician Article

Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/s12325-018-0805-y PMID: 30357570 Web of Science: 000449835100004
Highly Cited Paper International Collaboration

Cited authors

  • Blonde, Lawrence; Khunti, Kamlesh; Harris, Stewart B.; Meizinger, Casey; Skolnik, Neil S.

Abstract

  • Real-world studies have become increasingly important in providing evidence of treatment effectiveness in clinical practice. While randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for evaluating the safety and efficacy of new therapeutic agents, necessarily strict inclusion and exclusion criteria mean that trial populations are often not representative of the patient populations encountered in clinical practice. Real-world studies may use information from electronic health and claims databases, which provide large datasets from diverse patient populations, and/or may be observational, collecting prospective or retrospective data over a long period of time. They can therefore provide information on the long-term safety, particularly pertaining to rare events, and effectiveness of drugs in large heterogeneous populations, as well as information on utilization patterns and health and economic outcomes. This review focuses on how evidence from real-world studies can be utilized to complement data from RCTs to gain a more complete picture of the advantages and disadvantages of medications as they are used in practice.Funding: Sanofi US, Inc.

Publication date

  • 2018

Published in

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0741-238X

Start page

  • 1763

End page

  • 1774

Volume

  • 35

Issue

  • 11