The present and future scope of real‐world evidence research in diabetes: What questions can and cannot be answered and what might be possible in the future?

The last decade has witnessed an exponential growth in the opportunities to collect and link health‐related data from multiple resources, including primary care, administrative, and device data. The availability of these “real‐world,” “big data” has fuelled also an intense methodological research into methods to handle them and extract actionable information. In medicine, the evidence generated from “real‐world data” (RWD), which are not...