Profile photo: IQWIG’s systematic reviews of guidelines are now available in the PROINSIGHT™ database!


The PROINSIGHT™ database centralizes and summarizes published regulatory recommendations concerning the use of clinical outcome assessments (COAs) (cf. Glossary) to determine treatment benefit and to inform on drug approval and health technology assessment (HTA) review.

In order to help sponsors define their endpoint strategies, Mapi Research Trust launched this database in 2016 to inform users about recommendations that are characterized in terms of COAs.

The PROINSIGHT™ database is an option of the PROLABELS™ database.

Database Content and Information Sources


The scope of PROINSIGHT™ database is in line with the content of PROLABELS™: any COA endpoint mentioned in a guidance is detailed and characterized, whatever the method of measure may be: PRO, ClinRO, ObsRO, PerfO.

Objective measures such as biomarkers and survival are also included in the database if at least one COA is mentioned in the guidance, but they are not accompanied by detailed descriptions of the measures.
Biomarkers include laboratory tests of blood or other body fluids or tissues, or automated measures of biologic or pathologic processes that do not require human judgment or motivation in the generation of a score, e.g., cardiac monitoring, electroencephalograms, imaging tests that are read by electronic algorithms.

The database includes all published documents from the following categories (without time restriction):

For the IQWIG, our team of experts review ‘extracts of the final report’ drafted in English by the IQWIG without time restriction.