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Evidence

A full spectrum of real-world study types pharma teams need most all underpinned by a rigorous methodological framework.

We design studies across the study types pharma teams need most, applying the same rigorous causal inference framework regardless of question type or data source.

Comparative effectiveness & safety

Head-to-head treatment comparisons in real-world populations, designed to isolate treatment effects from the confounding inherent in observational data.

External control arms

Historically controlled comparator groups constructed from real-world data to support single-arm trials, with rigorous attention to time zero, eligibility alignment, and bias protection.

Trial emulation

Trial emulation frameworks that bring the design discipline of randomized trials to observational analyses, supporting label expansion and regulatory submissions.

Negative control outcome studies

Pre-comparative assessments that evaluate whether treatment groups are sufficiently comparable before a study is run, catching bias problems early, not after results are in.

Treatment patterns & adherence

How patients actually use treatments in practice: initiation, switching, discontinuation, and the downstream outcome consequences of each.

Healthcare utilization & costs

Resource use, expenditure, and burden of illness analyses that inform payer and HTA submissions as well as internal commercial decision-making.

Descriptive epidemiology

Disease natural history, incidence, prevalence, and population characterization studies, often the foundation for every study type above.

Subpopulation & high-risk analyses

Targeted investigations of specific patient segments where standard population-level findings don't apply and where the clinical or regulatory stakes are highest.

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