Real-World Evidence

Oct 5, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Real-World Evidence

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Sep 11, 2024 | evidencebaseonline.com | Joanne Walker |Real-World Evidence

In a new Commentary published in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, authors from Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA) reflect on the experience gained in recent years utilizing real-world data/evidence for regulatory decision-making on drug safety.

Sep 11, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Stockholm Sweden |Real-World Evidence

The inability to identify dates of death in insurance claims data is the United States is a major limitation to retrospective claims-based research. While deaths result in disenrollment, disenrollment can also occur due to changes in insurance providers. We created an algorithm to differentiate between disenrollment from health plans due to death and disenrollment for other reasons. We identified 5,259,735 adults who disenrolled from private insurance between 2007 and 2018.

Apr 6, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Real-World Evidence

Hysterectomy protects against cervical cancer when the cervix is removed. However, measures of cervical cancer incidence often fail to exclude women with a hysterectomy from the population at risk denominator, underestimating and distorting disease burden.

Oct 31, 2023 | bmcpulmmed.biomedcentral.com | Aidan Byrne |Outcomes Research |Real-World Evidence |Merck Sharp

A search was performed on 25 February 2021 in the MEDLINE, EMBASE, EconLit and EBM Reviews electronic databases via the Ovid platform. A combination of free text searching, and subject headings were used to capture the target population and outcomes.