The Prime Minister, David Cameron has annouced that “We are creating a new era of transparency”. He says that the Government’s release of official data will change the way we use our public services and adds that ‘You’ll be able to see not just what crimes have been committed on your street, but what action the police…
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) have today published guidance on the use of Real World data to help industry demonstrate value and provide important medicine response information on under-represented groups of patients. Amongst other things, the guide shows how to generate robust real world data; discusses what the internal considerations for undertaking…
This week, James Ware, Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and Mary Beth Hamel, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) further endorse the need for good quality pragmatic trials. They say that although randomised clinical trials provide essential, high quality evidence about the benefits and harms…
Fiona Godlee, editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) has this week highlighted the relative lack of information on the cost effectiveness of traetments in a real clinical setting. She points out that most cost effectiveness data comes from randomised controlled studies of idealised populations of patients and the true cost to the NHS needs…
Ahead of next week’s NICE conference in Birmingham, pH Associates now have a presence on Twitter and will be “tweating” from the conference with the latest Real World data related topics and issues from the conference. Follow us on Twitter……………. @PHAssociates1 This year’s NICE conference promises to be one of the biggest yet and the…
We are delighted to welcome Lucy Davies and Annette Williams to our growing project management team. Both Lucy and Annette have joined our team in Marlow over the last couple of months. Lucy joins us as a researcher and is responsible for working with sites to collect the appropriate data for ‘real world’ data collection…
pH Associates have been working with a number of professional bodies to co-ordinate the development of guidance to prevent people dying from gastric bleeding. The guidance was launched yesterday (Tuesday 15th March) and can be found on the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges website (click here). The news was also reported by the BBC yesterday…
We are delighted to welcome two new members to our growing management consultant team. Both Robert and Ruth bring additional strength and key skills to pH Associates and will be working with our currently established team in the design and implementation of innovative high quality real world data solutions. Ruth Uden joins us from the NHS where she had worked…
A survey conducted by pH Associates in conjunction with the Royal College of Physicians has been quoted in an online article by the BBC. The survey conducted earlier this year explored the acute medical care in a number of Trusts across the UK. The survey showed that whilst good progress has been made since 2008…
pH Associates have been supporting a series of lcoal service evaluations to collect data on the management of antibiotics in hopsitals and the potential for earlier discharge. The results were presented as a poster at the Federation of Infection Society (FIS) Meeting in Edinburgh on 18th November 2010. The project has been led by Dr Matthew…
