{"id":41539,"date":"2018-03-06T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T10:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=41539"},"modified":"2018-03-15T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T11:29:02","slug":"lieven-annemans-we-need-to-reach-a-common-understanding-about-real-world-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/03\/06\/lieven-annemans-we-need-to-reach-a-common-understanding-about-real-world-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Lieven Annemans: We need to reach a common understanding about real world data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\">Although real world data can complement data from trials, overly optimistic expectations about its use may lead to a situation of \u201csurreal world data\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/03\/Lieven_Annemans_0018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-41540\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/03\/Lieven_Annemans_0018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Over the past few years we have seen increasing attention paid to, and demand for, real world data (RWD) to support the evidence on the effectiveness of new medical technologies and medicines. However, there are a lot of misunderstandings and misconceptions about the benefits that such data can add. According to the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imi-getreal.eu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Get Real\u201d initiative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014part of the large EU Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)\u2014we need a common understanding about what constitutes RWD, a consensus on its relevance, and improved methods and governance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first thing we need in order to reach a common understanding is a definition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/randeurope\/research\/projects\/real-world-data-policy-landscape.html\">RAND Europe defines RWD<\/a> as an umbrella term referring to \u201cany data not collected in \u2018conventional randomised controlled trials (RCTs).'&#8221; It may include data from existing secondary sources (e.g. databases of national health services) and the collection of new data, both retrospectively and prospectively.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Thus, RWD can be obtained from different sources such as registries, claims databases, electronic patient records, biobanks, and even social media, chat rooms, and patient communities. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although RWD and data from RCTs are clearly distinct types of data, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/323\/7308\/334.1\">they should not be seen as being in competition with each other<\/a>, but rather as complementary.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the development phase of a new medicine, sources of RWD can help to better characterise diseases, patient populations, and patient needs. These data, describing the world without the new medicine, help us to understand patients\u2019 needs, and the number of complications, events, or non-responders. They can therefore help to better target the patients for which the new medicine should be developed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the market access phase, i.e. the phase in which coverage by healthcare systems is sought, RWD allow for a better understanding of the modalities of the current standards of care\u2014for the sake of comparison with the new medicine. Here RCT data are insufficient, largely because of the patient selection through a list of exclusion criteria. The RCT does the job it has to do, namely to investigate whether the new medicine is better than the standard of care within a controlled environment. In parallel, RWD do their part of the job by better describing the occurrence of complications and adverse events in routine clinical practice with current care. It is the combination of both types of data that can help to better estimate the impact of new medicines. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, during the market usage phase, once innovative medicines are used in routine practice, RWD allow us to monitor and understand their modalities of use, the adherence, and other outcomes (tolerance, safety, and effectiveness) in routine clinical practice. RWD may also support outcomes based agreements. In such agreements, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27581118\">if the real life outcomes are not in line with the predicted outcomes<\/a> (the latter are often based on modelling exercises to predict what will happen beyond the duration of the RCT) this has financial implications for the manufacturer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although RWD can complement data from RCTs, overly optimistic expectations about the use of RWD may lead to a situation of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">surreal world data.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Indeed, RWD used for the wrong purpose or at the wrong time, or data that are of poor quality and with incorrect analyses, are not doing their job. Typically, an attitude such as \u201cwe have data; what should we do with them?\u201d is not the way forward. Rather, the attitude should be: \u201cwe have well defined questions that cannot be answered via an RCT; which data do we need and when do we need it in order to answer those questions?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ownership of the data is another issue that needs consideration. What\u2019s the use of one party having their RWD and another party their own other set of data? We need to jointly invest in RWD and have common standards for data input and data organisation. Good examples are the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/health\/ern\/overview_en\">European Reference Networks<\/a> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ema.europa.eu\/ema\/index.jsp?curl=pages\/regulation\/general\/general_content_000658.jsp&amp;mid=WC0b01ac0580961211\">European Medicines Agency (EMA) initiative on patient registries<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.riziv.fgov.be\/SiteCollectionDocuments\/real_world_data.docx\">A recent multistakeholder initiative<\/a> established principles of good practice and the actions that are necessary to improve the use of RWD throughout the lifecycle of innovative medicines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, as a health economist, I wonder whether the use of RWD is always cost effective. What is the cost of getting the data? What are the efforts needed to manage the data, to ensure privacy protection, to clean and interpret the data? What do we get out of it and to what extent will the findings influence our knowledge base about the medicine? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only when these and other considerations are accounted for will RWD have a chance to play their complementary part and generate better evidence for new technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Lieven Annemans<\/strong> is a senior professor of health economics at the Faculty of Medicine at Ghent University, Belgium, and past president of ISPOR (the International Society of PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes Research).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests<\/strong>: None declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although real world data can complement data from trials, overly optimistic expectations about its use may lead to a situation of \u201csurreal world data\u201d [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/03\/06\/lieven-annemans-we-need-to-reach-a-common-understanding-about-real-world-data\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-bloggers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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