Non-Interventional Studies

Real-World Data

Real-world data are data relating to patient health status and/or the delivery of health care routinely collected from a variety of sources. Examples of RWD include data derived from electronic health records, medical claims data, data from product or disease registries, and data gathered from other sources (such as digital health technologies) that can inform on health status.

Real-world evidence is the clinical evidence about the usage and potential benefits or risks of a medical product derived from analysis of RWD.

Irvine Labs works with researchers and collects real-world data to support advancement of therapeutic research and development.

FDA’s RWE Activities

The 21st Century Cures Act of 2016 was designed to accelerate medical product development and bring new innovations and advances faster and more efficiently to the patients who need them. In response, FDA created a Framework in 2018 for evaluating the potential use of RWE to help support the approval of a new indication for a drug already approved under section 505(c) of the FD&C Act or to help support or satisfy drug post-approval study requirements. In addition to drug and biological products approved under section 505(c), this framework is also intended for application to biological products licensed under the Public Health Service Act.

Multiple FDA centers incorporate RWD and RWE into daily activities based on the nature of their work and the scope of their regulations:

See CBER/CDER page for more information.

See OCE RWE page for information on RWD and RWE at the Oncology Center of Excellence.

See Advancing RWE Program page for information describing one of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act VII commitments related to RWE.

Submitting Real-World Data to Irvine Labs

Please contact us to discuss a submittal of real-world data that you think will be useful in our research initiatives.