Type: Peer Reviewed Publications

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluate the safety and efficacy of medical products in specific patient populations under rigorously controlled conditions. While adherence to structured protocols, use of restrictive eligibility criteria, and patient randomization maximize the internal validity of RCT results, eligibility and protocol-directed care may reduce the relevancy of study results for broader patient populations…

The 21st Century Cures Act was enacted in 2016, to evaluate the health policy goals of trial design modernization and use of real-world evidence (RWE) creating numerous synergistic efforts.1 These efforts aim to further understand ways in which RWE may complement or supplement randomized controlled trial data for regulatory purposes.2–6 Evaluating applied examples of real-world data (RWD)…

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for assessing safety and efficacy of drugs; however, RCTs have limitations such as controlled settings, selective patient populations, and short-term study outcomes that might not be generalizable to heterogenous real-world populations and settings.1–3 There is a need to understand the effectiveness of medical interventions in representative real-world populations…

Background:Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) based response rate (RR) is used for efficacy evaluation in clinical trials and relies on imaging data collected at specified timepoints for uniform assessment. In routine clinical practice, the method and timing of response assessment can vary, and imaging data from electronic health records (EHR) and other real…