10 July 2019 - Radically expanding use of real‐world data and real‐world evidence holds the potential to substantially impact drug development, pharmaceutical regulation, and payment within health care systems.
Central to this is the reconfiguration of data gathering and transformation of data to information, which can be used as evidence for decision making.
Breckenridge and colleagues discuss applications of this paradigm in the light of recent developments in both the United States and Europe on real-world data and real-world evidence.