“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best”. So said W. Edwards Deming, quality guru and founder of the concept of continuous improvement that transformed...
Thought Leadership
How to Reduce Missed Drug Safety References with Precision Search
Can a single missed drug safety reference be a billion dollar problem? If it’s been missed in literature monitoring for pharmacovigilance, it can. A missed drug safety reference can have serious...
Doing It Right: The Rigorous Approach to Medical Literature Monitoring for Drug Safety
Correctly identifying adverse events from medical literature is one of the key tasks in pharmacovigilance (PV). It’s also one of the most complex. The sheer volume of information available is...
You Need to Reduce Duplicate References in Your Medical Literature Monitoring: Here’s Why
Too much information. In our everyday lives it’s an irritation, at worst. But in medical literature monitoring, it’s a major issue. How do you cut through the noise to find the reference that really...
Can AI and machine learning automate medical literature monitoring?
If you work in pharmacovigilance (PV), are the robots coming for your job? Medical literature monitoring is part of the PV process with significant scope for automation. On the face of it, this...
Beyond the Paywall: the Place of Non-Patent Literature
“On average, one out of five search reports issued by the European Patent Office (EPO) contains a non-patent literature (NPL) document citation, mainly from scholarly papers. More than half of all...
Structured Searches: One Stop Patent Examination
Dealing with everything from chemical compounds to smartphones, patent examiners are the gatekeepers of innovation; tasked with ensuring only high quality, valid patents are granted. The volume of...
EU Medical Device Regulation: What does it mean for manufacturers?
Updated: On 24 April 2020, in the Official Journal of the European Union, the EMA confirmed a one-year postponement to the go-live date for the EU Medical Device Regulation and an extension of...
How does Dialog compare to PubMed for accessing MEDLINE?
For years we’ve touted the benefits of searching MEDLINE on the Dialog® platform. Aside from our intuitive interface and thesauri, Dialog lets you search across multiple databases at the same time....
