Sharlene Dong MD, Ankit J. Kansagra MD, Gurbakhash Kaur MDMA, Anna Barcellos MPH, Andrew J. Belli MPH, Laura L. Fernandes PhD, Eric Hansen MS, Jacob Ambrose MS, Claire Bai MS, Christina M. Zettler, Ching-Kun Wang MD
Real-world data (RWD) is being increasingly used to support clinical and regulatory decisions where utilization of clinical trial data is difficult or impractical. With this expanded utilization comes a need to ensure RWD is of sufficient quality and completeness to adequately answer relevant research questions. Given the importance of overall survival (OS) for oncology research, treatment and care, complete and accurate real-world mortality data capture is of critical importance. Currently the industry standard practice aggregates mortality data across available data sources to maximize data capture. This study sought to validate and benchmark a composite real-world mortality variable against the gold standard data source from the National Death Index (NDI).