RCT-DUPLICATE Findings Demonstrate Capability of Real-World Evidence Studies to Reach Conclusions Similar to Randomized Clinical Trials
Real-world evidence (RWE) technology and analytics company Aetion has announced the culmination of the RCT-DUPLICATE demonstration project, with complete findings published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). This three-year initiative tested whether researchers asking clinical questions in real-world data (RWD)—data from patients’ day-to-day interactions with the healthcare system—would obtain similar results to findings from randomized clinical trials (RCTs). In cases where clinical trial designs aligned with real patient care processes, the RWE studies and RCTs came to largely similar conclusions. As part of...