For physicians & health professionals
Emerging Science & Literature Surveillance
Know when the evidence changes.
A static literature review begins aging the day it is completed.
For subjects that change rapidly, we can maintain continuing surveillance over a defined scientific field and identify developments substantial enough to matter.
What can be monitored
- peer-reviewed publications and systematic reviews
- randomized trials, trial registrations, and results
- regulatory decisions and safety communications
- significant conference presentations and guidelines
- corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions
- major new mechanistic findings
The point is filtration
- An effective surveillance service should not send you everything. It should distinguish routine publication volume from developments that materially change the strength of evidence, the safety picture, a mechanism, the competitive landscape, the regulatory situation, or the interpretation of previous findings.
- Because surveillance is built on a defined baseline, every new paper is interpreted in context rather than presented as if the field began with the latest publication.
Delivery options
- Periodic digest — a scheduled summary of material developments.
- Priority alerts — notification when a predefined high-importance event occurs.
- Living evidence file — a continuously maintained source and evidence repository.
- Periodic reassessment — formal re-evaluation of an earlier conclusion as the evidence base changes.
Scope
Surveillance is research support. Clinical and business decisions remain with the client and their advisors.
Know when the evidence changes.
Establish a Research Watch