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What is a real-world evidence protocol outline?
A real-world evidence protocol outline is the short version of the study plan: the question, the design, the data source, the population, the endpoints, the analysis and the governance, set out as headings and the sentences under them. It is what a team circulates before the full protocol is written, and it is where a reviewer first sees whether the study is planned like a trial or assembled afte
A real-world evidence protocol outline is the short version of the study plan: the question, the design, the data source, the population, the endpoints, the analysis and the governance, set out as headings and the sentences under them. It is what a team circulates before the full protocol is written, and it is where a reviewer first sees whether the study is planned like a trial or assembled after the fact.
The outline matters because the expensive gaps are visible in it. A plan to finalise the statistical analysis plan after database lock, an external control matched only on age and sex, or a data use agreement still in negotiation are all decisions that are cheaper to change before the analysis than after it.
Where this comes from
The checks behind this answer are on the rule set, each with the timestamp in the recorded source. The legal basis is on the basis page. Run the free check on your own outline.