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Improving Assessment Data Consistency in Multi-Center Studies

Ensuring assessments are conducted, analyzed, and reported consistently across sites is a challenge facing managers of multi-center clinical studies.   While identification and quantification of between site variation is typically part of the statistical analysis, collecting more consistent data from the … Continue reading

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Statistics and Statisticians in Clinical Trials – Beginning with the End in Mind

Cover of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Begin with the end in mind … is imagination–the ability to envision in your mind what you cannot at present see with your eyes. It is based on the principle that all … Continue reading

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Accelerated Approval

Image via Wikipedia One must strike the right balance between speed and quality. – Clare Short Accelerated approval has been in the news for a while, so it seems like a good time to go over some of the basics:  … Continue reading

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505(b)(2) Marketing Applications – Bridging the Gaps

There is no doubt that the drug development business is very expensive and development can take many years before a viable, money-generating product can be marketed. A strategy some of our clients implement to more quickly and more inexpensively develop … Continue reading

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New Draft Guidance on Noninferiority Trials

In March 2010, the FDA issued a draft guidance on the use of noninferiority (NI) trials.  While not in final form, this guidance should help sponsors understand the issues the FDA considers when reviewing NI trials. In contrast to statements … Continue reading

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