Use of routinely collected data in a UK cohort of publicly funded randomised clinical trials

摘要: Routinely collected data about health in medical records, registries and hospital activity statistics is now routinely an electronic form. The extent to which such sources of are being accessed deliver efficient clinical trials, unclear. The aim this study was ascertain current practice amongst a United Kingdom (UK) cohort recently funded and ongoing randomised controlled trials (RCTs) relation sources use outcome data. Recently RCTs were identified for inclusion by searching the National Institute Health Research journals library. Trials that have protocol available assessed those or plan (RCHD) at least one included. RCHD information extracted. Of 216 RCTs, 102 (47%) planned RCHD. A source sole 46 (45%) trials. most frequent Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Office (ONS), with common be extracted on mortality, admission, service resource use. Our has found around half publicly UK (NIHR HTA had available) collect from sources. This much higher than figure 8% 189 published since 2000, majority carried out North America (McCord et al ., 2019).