US FDA’s Current Technical Standards Not A Good Fit For Real-World Data, Stakeholders Say
Executive Summary
The agency’s existing technical standards are better-suited to clinical trial data, and mapping RWD to these formats will result in the loss of granularity and introduce new opportunities for human error, pharmaceutical industry representatives and data companies say in comments on a draft guidance.
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