DARWIN EU: The Go-To Place For Real World Data

An EU-wide network of real-world data sources will aim to become the dominant vehicle for delivering such evidence to the EMA and member countries, who have until now been using a wide range of different sources to access such data.

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The European Medicines Agency has drawn up a five-year plan to fully implement its ambitious initiative to integrate various real-world databases across the EU under a single, secure network, called the Data Analysis and Real World Interrogation Network (DARWIN EU).

While DARWIN EU is being set up, it will in parallel deliver RWD studies that various EMA scientific committees are...

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