RWD 101
There are many types of RWD sources - these are two of them.
- Electronic Health Record (EHR)
- Administrative Claims and Enrollment
- Disease, Procedural, Device Registries
- Personal and Digital Health Applications
- Public health databases
- Genomics, metabolomics, proteomics data
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Who is Eliza?
This is the number of TCET nominations CMS expects to accept in a year.
What is 5?
This is the number of seminars R2D2 held.
This is the number of Sith.
What is 2?
"Transportability" methods are the brainchild of this researcher, who's also the statistical editor of JAMA.
Who is Issa Dahabreh?
This person can provide the most facts about the Denver Nuggets, beginning in 1999.
Who is Fraser?
This is how much time the public has to comment on a proposed NCD.
What is 30 days?
This is the number of academic experts we engaged on R2D2.
What is 4?
Who is Princess Leia?
This is one of many features of a randomized controlled trial that can also be applied to RWD studies to make them more rigorous.
- Public registration
- Clearly state hypotheses
- Prespecify statistical analyses
- Use fit for purpose datasets
- Use validated outcomes
- Statistically adjust patient populations
- Conduct sensitivity analyses to check for confounding
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Who is Aanchal?
This is the name of the organization in CMS responsible for issuing a Medicare payment system change request.
What is DPCI?
Not counting SRCA Task Order leadership, this is the number of team members on the project.
What is 12?
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What is the Millennium Falcon?
This is the name for a variable that predicts the treatment received but is not associated with the outcome through any pathway apart from the treatment received.
What is an instrumental variable?
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Who is Juan?
These are two of several reasons why a TCET nomination can be rejected or screened out before the evidence preview begins.
- Not separately payable
- Not applicable to Medicare
- No benefit category
- No longer eligible for FDA approval
- Not prioritized
This is the number of versions the protocol template has been through.
What is 12?
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What is a Tauntaun?
This is what HARPER stands for.
What is the HARmonized Protocol Template to Enhance Reproducibility?
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Who is Seth?
True or false: the evidence preview includes evidence generated from a Coverage with Evidence Development study.
What is False.
This is the number of user stories in the Con Ops.
What is 147?
This is what R2D2 stands for.
Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2,
but we'll also accept "More real, more data"!