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When Worlds Collide: The Theory of Real-World Evidence Meets Reality

FDA Law Blog

FDA has even gone so far as to maintain that the “real-life clinical performance of a medical product might be more clearly demonstrated through RWD/RWE because a controlled clinical trial often cannot evaluate all applications of a product in clinical practice across the full range of potential users.”

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? And she was from Oregon, of course, and in Oregon in 2012, she had completed an advanced directive for stopping eating and drinking once she had advanced dementia. And then finally you have the moral distress of the providers.

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