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Getting real in clinical trials

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery volume 13, pages 639–640 (2014)Cite this article

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How can real-world data from electronic health records be harnessed to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical trials?

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The author retired as the Director of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) in June 2014 and remains an expert consultant on the CPRD for the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MRHA), but the views here are his own.

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Parkinson, J. Getting real in clinical trials. Nat Rev Drug Discov 13, 639–640 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrd4415

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