Real World Data Analysis
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Overview
- Real World Data (RWD) are patient-level data that originate from a variety of sources, including, but not limited to: Electronic health records (EHRs), billing claims, disease registries, and patient-generated data e.g. from mobile devices
- RWD is an important source of clinical information that can help fill knowledge gaps that result from the highly-controlled setting of sponsored-intervention studies, such as randomized-controlled trials (RCTs)
- Data collection in the heterogenous environment of the “real-world setting” (RWS) is an important complement to sponsored-intervention studies
- Nevertheless, there are significant inherent challenges of collecting highly unstructured data in the real-world setting
- Therefore, strategies to facilitate the collection of RWD are sorely needed
- Nevertheless, there are significant inherent challenges of collecting highly unstructured data in the real-world setting
- In this series of tutorial posts, weprovide a learning repository for readers to become familiar with available resources that can enhance Real World Data capture
- We cover topics aimed at optimizing instrument development in REDCap to ensure a seamless user experience/user interface (UX/UI) for data abstractors, and cover built-in tools essential to managing quality control of captured RWD
- We cover topics aimed at optimizing instrument development in REDCap to ensure a seamless user experience/user interface (UX/UI) for data abstractors, and cover built-in tools essential to managing quality control of captured RWD
David Michael Miller
Medical Oncologist and Dermatologist
My research interests include clinical and translational research in advanced skin cancers.
Posts
A REDCap-to-R Pipeline for Interactive Body Map Visualizations in Cutaneous Oncology
A data science tool for interactive visualizations of skin cancer lesions
Optimizing Real-World Data Collection: Clinical Genomics
Facilitate capture of real-world next-generation genomic data
Tutorial Series on the Instruments of the Merkel Cell Carcinoma Patient Registry: Presentation and Initial Staging
Outlining the development of the “Presentation and Initial Staging Instrument” of the Merkel Cell Carcinoma Patient …
Optimizing Real World Data Collection: Flagging Prospective Records for Future Update
A proposed workflow for flagging prospective records for future updates in a patient registry hosted on
REDCap
Optimizing Real World Data Collection: Routine Maintenance of Prospective Records
A proposed workflow for monitoring completion of retrospective records in a patient registry hosted on
REDCap
Optimizing Real World Data Collection: In-Instrument Quality Control in REDCap
A proposed workflow for referral of data quality concerns in a patient registry hosted on
REDCap
Optimizing Real World Data Collection: Improving the UX/UI of REDCap via Branching Logic
A tutorial on creating and deploying branching logic on the
REDCap platform
