A New Framework For Comprehensive Evidence Development
Executive Summary
In today’s health care environment, where the volume and complexity of clinical information continues to increase for a range of stakeholders, research sponsors must understand how clinical trials, prospective observational research or registries, and retrospective data are used, what the costs are, and what a combined approach will look like. They must prepare for a more comprehensive and efficient research paradigm that provides payors, providers, and policy makers with the requisite data to make coverage and treatment decisions.
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