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Below the surface: NICE’s quality standards in skin cancer
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is developing guidance to update the quality standard in skin cancer, which covers the...
Ethics in patient-centered real-world studies: what, when, and who?
What do we mean by ethics? Ethics are principles or standards that guide behavior. Aligning research processes to ethical guidelines protects...
From paper to screen: eCOAs and the ISPOR Task Force’s updated recommendations
Electronic formats of clinical outcome assessments (eCOAs) have become the norm. COAs describe or reflect how a person feels, functions, or...
Data storytelling in patient-centric research
Mapping the patient journey: data storytelling in patient-centric research Harshitha Ravindra, Data Visualization Lead, and Laura Day, Associate...
Maximizing the potential of your digital patient-centric study
On March 29, we hosted the 15th webinar in our “Keeping it real” series: “How to design a study app for a real-world study”. Jon Spinage, CTO, and...
Are you getting your message across? Health literacy in real-world research
Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related...
Designing a digital patient-reported real-world study
On 25th January, we hosted the 13th webinar in the “Keeping it real” series. How to design a digital real-world study? Real-World Evidence...
Delphi panels and the case for consensus
In the hierarchy of evidence, randomized controlled trials are the gold standard. While seeking expert opinion will never compare in terms of...
Reflecting on 2022, and looking into the (RWE) crystal ball…
Future historians are likely to look back on 2022 as a year of political, economic, and climatic turbulence… as the year winds down, however, the...
Should I stay or should I go? Patient engagement and retention in real-world studies
In April 2022, Industry Standard Research conducted a survey on behalf of PPD (the clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific) with 152...
Micro-moments: how and why to capture them with RWD
This blog is based on a webinar hosted by Vitaccess. For access to this webinar, and all webinars that we have hosted, please visit our dedicated...
Real-world data to support access for medical devices
This blog is based on a webinar hosted by Vitaccess in collaboration with Odelle Technology. Odelle Technology is an established consultancy...
Translation of ethnicity lists in multi-country real-world studies
When entering demographic information, participants registering for multi-country real-world studies typically select their ethnicity from a...
How to overcome obstacles in RWE analytics
Analyzing datasets from our clients’ real-world studies can be complicated. The nature of these studies, and what sets them apart from randomized...
It’s good to talk: the value of qualitative research
People experience things in a unique way, using their own words and meanings to make sense of what is going on around them. In the case of a health...
How to build a scientific advisory board for digital registries
Scientific advisory boards (SABs) are an important part of the governance framework for digital real-world studies. These studies are conceptualized...
Why is UX a priority in digital real-world studies?
When we talk about “user experience” or “UX”, what do we mean? Creating products for patients carries unique and important challenges. Even within a...
Why is the caregiver perspective more important than ever in real-world studies?
On March 2, 2022, we held a webinar on the importance of including the caregiver perspective in real-world studies. Here, we delve into some of the...
NICE severity modifier: Not all QALYs are created equal
The UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published an update to its methods and processes for health technology...
Validating patient diagnosis in real-world studies
When is a patient a patient? Diagnosis “validation” is the part of the recruitment process for patient-/caregiver-reported studies where the...
Do colors speak louder than words?
We create patient-friendly apps that are accessible to anyone, regardless of nationality or disability. The role of color in app design is a...
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Exploring the use of EQ-5D “bolt-ons” in our real-world studies When we are designing our real-world studies, the collection of health-related...
Safety reporting in digital RWE studies
The use of digital tools means that longitudinal real-world evidence studies can be considered as adaptive registries, with a powerful range of both...
Engagement analysis: seeing data live
There has been a shift in the way that quality-of-life studies are conducted within the life sciences industry. Traditionally, such studies would...
Geofencing tech to address gaps in oncology value paradigm
When deciding on the value of a certain treatment for cancer, the current “value paradigm” considers factors such as improvements in clinical...
The power of testing
Imagine that we are developing a software application to study the real-world impact of a rare disease on patients and caregivers. Our Product team...
Rapid patient recruitment for app-based studies
Before our digital real-world studies can make any sort of impact for researchers, clinicians, or pharmaceutical companies, we need to recruit...
