RWD 101
Name that teammate!
TCET Trivia
Project Stats
R2D2
100

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

100

This is Taylor Swift's biggest fan on the team.

Who is Eliza?

100

This is the number of TCET nominations CMS expects to accept in a year.

What is 5?

100

This is the number of seminars R2D2 held.

What is 5? 
100

This is the number of Sith.

What is 2? 

200

"Transportability" methods are the brainchild of this researcher, who's also the statistical editor of JAMA.

Who is Issa Dahabreh?

200

This person can provide the most facts about the Denver Nuggets, beginning in 1999.

Who is Fraser? 

200

This is how much time the public has to comment on a proposed NCD. 

What is 30 days?

200

This is the number of academic experts we engaged on R2D2.

What is 4? 

200
This character kills Jabba the Hutt.

Who is Princess Leia? 

300

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

300

This person is going to Spain and Switzerland this summer.

Who is Aanchal? 

300

This is the name of the organization in CMS responsible for issuing a Medicare payment system change request.

What is DPCI? 

300

Not counting SRCA Task Order leadership, this is the number of team members on the project.

What is 12?

300

This spaceship was modeled after a hamburger with an olive next to it.

What is the Millennium Falcon? 

400

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?

400

This person is learning to play the piano.

Who is Juan?

400

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

400

This is the number of versions the protocol template has been through.

What is 12? 

400

This is the animal that Luke Skywalker slept in to keep warm in the icy terrain of Hoth.

What is a Tauntaun?

500

This is what HARPER stands for.

What is the HARmonized Protocol Template to Enhance Reproducibility?

500

This person listens to the podcast Fly on the Wall with David Spade and Dana Carvey.

Who is Seth?

500

True or false: the evidence preview includes evidence generated from a Coverage with Evidence Development study.

What is False.

500

This is the number of user stories in the Con Ops.

What is 147?

500

This is what R2D2 stands for.

Second Generation Robotic Droid Series-2,

but we'll also accept "More real, more data"!