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Routinely collected health data (RCD) for randomized controlled trials (RCT)
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Veröffentlicht: | 23. Februar 2017 |
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Objectives: To discuss promises, opportunities and real world challenges of using routinely collected health data when conducting randomized trials.
To spread the understanding of the potential of this evidence and ignite collaborative research activities.
Relevance: Routinely collected health data (RCD) such as administrative claims data from health insurers, disease or patient registries, or hospital databases can be used for more than observational data analyses. Their true value for evidence based health care may be their potential to generate more and more useful randomized trials (RCTs). They may, for example, facilitate large-scale pragmatic trials where outcomes are measured in large patient populations [1]. They may also allow to screen large populations for recruitment purposes to realize small trials in patients with rare conditions [2]. All this may even be possible at costs that are substantially lower [3].
Speakers: Lars G Hemkens, Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, further stakeholders
Methods: This interactive workshop invites researchers, decision-makers, regulators and other interested stakeholders. We will present and discuss empirical research on the validity and reliability of RCD in general and specifically for recruiting patients to RCTs or measuring outcomes in RCTs. Real world case examples from the UK, Switzerland and other countries will be shown and discussed and we aim to interactively outline promises, opportunities and challenges of this way of evidence generation.
We will collect contact information of interested participants to form an interest group aiming to establish a network of interested researchers to foster future activities on using RCD for RCTs.
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