Yet another nail in the coffin of real word evidence replacing dedicated research.

https://geeknews.chat/@slashdot/110501446689659890

#realWorldEvidence #healthResearch #healthAI

“Real world data are advocated as an alternative approach to RCTs for closing knowledge gaps on drugs, but Beate Wieseler and colleagues argue that this approach is the wrong remedy for current challenges in drug development” (BMJ https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj-2022-073100)

Lay summary: RWD is often like the maths joke:
A: I’m really fast at math
B: 124 • 34
A: 2 678
B: Not even close
A: But I was really fast and it’s a math answer

#RWD #RealWorldEvidence #RCT #Methods

So apparently Mastodon does #followbackfriday as it says in the bio I am a researcher but I also have a tech podcast thats been running a while.

You can grab that here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wake-from-sleep/id1607106713 on an apple device or here https://www.wakefromsleep.com/episodes?format=rss from an RSS reader (sorry blatant ad over)

Also interested in
#datascience
#MultipleSclerosis
#HealthInformatics
#PROMS
#realworldevidence