Real World Evidence Benefits, Limits Explored In US FDA Demonstrations
Executive Summary
FDA's Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay lists three demonstrations now underway that are aimed at looking at different aspects of generating real world evidence and may inform the agency's evaluation of the data and methods.
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