Oncology Drug Effectiveness from Electronic Health Record Data Calibrated Against RCT Evidence: The PARSIFAL Trial Emulation.
David MerolaJessica YoungDeborah SchragKueiyu Joshua LinNicholas RobertSebastian G SchneeweissPublished in: Clinical epidemiology (2022)
Despite common challenges encountered in EHR-based studies, it is possible to achieve similar conclusions to emulated randomized trials with the application of analytic approaches that address missing data, confounding, and selection bias. This is a promising finding in light of other emulations and ongoing efforts to improve data from clinical practice and causal analytics.