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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.”

Medical 111
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Are your patients satisfied?

Physician's Practice

Welcome to Five Minute Practice Fix, featuring instructional videos by physician and business of medicine expert Neil Baum, M.D. Dr. Baum is Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has also written The Complete Business Guide to a Successful Medical Practice, which was published in 2015.

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Do statins reduce mortality in older people? Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records

BMJ

This is because clinical trials are expensive to carry out and therefore tend to be of relatively short duration, with statins trials having on average two to five years of treatment exposure. 9 The availability of electronic health records makes it easier to follow up on patients’ health information for an extended period.