Sourcing and Selecting Real World Data
Explore these two Insight Guides and discover how real world data (RWD) can meet the needs of your stakeholders, and get real results. 

Sourcing Real World Data
Understanding diverse real world data sources and the questions they can answer

In this paper, we outline common types of real world datasets, highlight considerations when deciding which ones to use, and give examples of how IQVIA has helped clients find the right data source to answer their research question.
Selecting Real World Data
A guide to selecting the right real world data to support your research

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to choosing RWD. In this paper, we present an approach for reviewing a real world dataset to see whether it can provide sufficiently high-quality evidence to justify the effort and expense of accessing it and performing the research.
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