提高透明度以建立对假设检验的真实世界二次数据研究的信任——原因、内容和方法:来自真实世界证据透明度倡议的建议和路线图。
Improving Transparency to Build Trust in Real-World Secondary Data Studies for Hypothesis Testing-Why, What, and How: Recommendations and a Road Map from the Real-World Evidence Transparency Initiative.
机构信息
ISPOR, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA.
ISPOR, Lawrenceville, NJ, USA.
出版信息
Value Health. 2020 Sep;23(9):1128-1136. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2020.04.002.
Real-world data (RWD) and the derivations of these data into real-world evidence (RWE) are rapidly expanding from informing healthcare decisions at the patient and health system level to influencing major health policy decisions, including regulatory approvals and coverage. Recent examples include the approval of palbociclib in combination with endocrine therapy for male breast cancer and the inclusion of RWE in the label of paliperidone palmitate for schizophrenia. This interest has created an urgency to develop processes that promote trust in the evidence-generation process. Key stakeholders and decision-makers include patients and their healthcare providers; learning health systems; health technology assessment bodies and payers; pharmacoepidemiologists and other clinical reseachers, and policy makers interested in bioethical and regulatory issues. A key to optimal uptake of RWE is transparency of the research process to enable decision-makers to evaluate the quality of the methods used and the applicability of the evidence that results from the RWE studies. Registration of RWE studies-particularly for hypothesis evaluating treatment effectiveness (HETE) studies-has been proposed to improve transparency, trust, and research replicability. Although registration would not guarantee better RWE studies would be conducted, it would encourage the prospective disclosure of study plans, timing, and rationale for modifications. A joint task force of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) and the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology (ISPE) recommended that investigators preregister their RWE studies and post their study protocols in a publicly available forum before starting studies to reduce publication bias and improve the transparency of research methods. Recognizing that published recommendations alone are insufficient, especially without accessible registration options and with no incentives, a group of experts gathered on February 25 and 26, 2019, in National Harbor, Maryland, to explore the structural and practical challenges to the successful implementation of the recommendations of the ISPOR/ISPE task force for preregistration. This positioning article describes a plan for making registration of HETE RWE studies routine. The plan includes specifying the rationale for registering HETE RWE studies, the studies that should be registered, where and when these studies should be registered, how and when analytic deviations from protocols should be reported, how and when to publish results, and incentives to encourage registration. Table 1 summarizes the rationale, goals, and potential solutions that increase transparency, in addition to unique concerns about secondary data studies. Definitions of terms used throughout this report are provided in Table 2.
真实世界数据(RWD)及其衍生的真实世界证据(RWE)正迅速从为患者和医疗系统层面的医疗决策提供信息扩展到影响重大卫生政策决策,包括监管审批和覆盖范围。最近的例子包括帕博西尼联合内分泌疗法用于男性乳腺癌的批准,以及将帕利哌酮棕榈酸酯的 RWE 纳入精神分裂症标签中。这种兴趣促使人们迫切需要开发促进对证据生成过程信任的流程。主要利益相关者和决策者包括患者及其医疗保健提供者;学习型医疗保健系统;卫生技术评估机构和支付方;药物流行病学学家和其他临床研究人员,以及对生物伦理和监管问题感兴趣的政策制定者。优化 RWE 采用的关键是研究过程的透明度,使决策者能够评估用于 RWE 研究的方法的质量和结果证据的适用性。RWE 研究的注册——特别是对于评估治疗效果的假设性研究(HETE)——已被提议提高透明度、信任度和研究可重复性。虽然注册并不能保证更好的 RWE 研究,但它将鼓励前瞻性地披露研究计划、时间安排和修改的理由。国际药物经济学和结果研究学会(ISPOR)和国际药物流行病学学会(ISPE)的一个联合工作组建议,调查人员在开始研究之前,应预先注册他们的 RWE 研究,并在公共论坛上发布他们的研究方案,以减少发表偏倚并提高研究方法的透明度。认识到仅发布建议是不够的,特别是如果没有可访问的注册选项且没有激励措施,因此,一群专家于 2019 年 2 月 25 日至 26 日在马里兰州国家港湾举行会议,探讨成功实施 ISPOR/ISPE 工作组关于预先注册的建议所面临的结构性和实际挑战。这篇定位文章描述了使 HETE RWE 研究注册成为常规的计划。该计划包括确定注册 HETE RWE 研究的理由、应注册的研究、应在何处和何时注册这些研究、如何以及何时报告分析偏离方案的情况、如何以及何时发布结果以及鼓励注册的激励措施。表 1 总结了增加透明度的理由、目标和潜在解决方案,此外还包括对二次数据研究的独特关注。本报告通篇使用的术语定义见附表 2。