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Systematic Literature Reviews
Our market access literature review services help you understand both the content and the methodological quality of studies so you can evaluate the body of published knowledge related to your particular health care question. This enables you and your colleagues to make better plans for drug development and to plan for the eventual use of the product.
We perform literature reviews that examine:
- Measures of disease frequency
- Burden-of-illness
- Treatment patterns
A Methodology You Can Depend On
We have a consistent process by which all literature searches are conducted in a scientifically rigorous and efficient manner under a defined study plan, which includes:
- Specific objectives
- Scope of the review
- Inclusion/exclusion criteria (e.g.,geography, patient population)
- Database and data sources (including both peer-reviewed journals and “gray” literature such as unpublished manuscripts)
- Deliverables and timelines
Related Services: Meta-Analysis Services
While systematic literature reviews are qualitative in nature, meta-analyses are quantitative. Often a comprehensive literature review is accompanied by a meta-analysis. Utilizing the latest techniques, our researchers and biostatisticians perform meta-analyses to pool and analyze the research results of separate but similar studies. Meta-analyses are particularly helpful when head-to-head trial data is not available.
