The term real world evidence, supplemented by the term pragmatic trials, has been around for some years, but remains on an upswing. Pubmed gives over 400 hits for "
real world evidence," including a dozen articles currently "in press" (as of May 2017) in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (
here). "Pragmatic trials" has 350 hits.
The specialists at EyeForPharma recently held a conference on RWE in Amsterdam in April 2017 and provide a long synopsis online,
here (archive
here). The April 2017 agenda is still online,
here.
They've also set up a webpage for a forthcoming November 2017 Philadelphia conference,
here.
