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. 2025 Jul 2:bmjebm-2024-113617.
doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2024-113617. Online ahead of print.

Understanding synthetic data: artificial datasets for real-world evidence

Randi Foraker  1 , Jon D Morrow  2 , Julie A Johnson  3 , Adam B Wilcox  4 , Alan J Forster  5 , Philip R O Payne  4
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Understanding synthetic data: artificial datasets for real-world evidence

Randi Foraker et al. BMJ Evid Based Med. .
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Keywords: Delivery of Health Care; Ethics; Information Science; Methods.

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Competing interests: All authors declare no support from any organisation for the submitted work. JDM is a former employee of MDClone, which markets synthetic data software that was used in some of the cited studies; he has no ongoing financial interest in the company. No other relationships or activities exist that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.

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