Real World Evidence Guidance
| Project Scope | 
| This group is designed to serve as an open-source platform for addressing queries related to real-world data (RWD). We aim to create an environment similar to Stack Overflow, where you can receive answers to your questions. | 
| Problem Statement | 
| Every organisation has internal documents of learnings and best practices for conducting research with real-world data. This could take the form of database quirks, standard cohort definitions and preferred algorithms. There is currently no open-source alternative to the internal documents, which leads to duplicated errors, slower learning at the individual level and slower advancement of real-world evidence at the industry level. | 
| Problem Impact | 
| Having an open-source option for these learnings to be recorded and shared will lead to less duplication of effort, faster evolution of the real-world evidence space, and ultimately better insights for participants and patients. Stakeholders include data vendors, pharma and any other entity that uses real-world data. | 
| Project Leads | |
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| David Hood, Axtria | |
| Nicola Newton, PHUSE Project Assistant | 
| CURRENT STATUS Q3 2024 | 
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| Resources | 
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| A collection of frequently asked questions about using Real World Evidence has been compiled by the team. Check out the Real World Evidence Guidance Q&A page to see some of the teams' responses and the schedule of upcoming questions. | 
| Objectives & Deliverables | Timelines | 
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| Project kick off | Q2 2023 | 
| Create 5 seed example Q&A posts | Q2 2023 | 
| Abstract to be posted on PHUSE education website to raise awareness of this forum | Q3 2023 | 
| Email/social media campaign to raise awareness | Q3 2023 | 
| Publish questions | Ongoing | 
