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. 2018 Feb 5:360:j5262.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.j5262.

Real world evidence: experience and lessons from China

Xin Sun  1 , Jing Tan  2 , Li Tang  2 , Jeff Jianfei Guo  3 , Xinling Li  4
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Real world evidence: experience and lessons from China

Xin Sun et al. BMJ. .

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Abstract

Xin Sun and colleagues discuss the development of real world evidence in Chinese healthcare and propose strategies to improve its quality and usefulness

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare that the study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 81590955; 71573183; 71704122), Thousand Youth Talents Plan of China (grant number D1024002), and The National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of China (grant number 2016M602699). JJG is supported by the US Center of Medicaid and Medicare Services, PCORI, and unrestricted educational research grants sponsored by Novartis, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Janssen Ortho-McNeil, Roche, and Eli Lilly. None is related to this article.

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Number of published peer reviewed articles based on registries and retrospective databases in China. More details are given in appendices 1-3 on bmj.com
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