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Why and how to understand patient preferences

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Interview with Brett Hauber

Ultimately, we work to improve patients lives but traditionally the voice of the patient was not important. However, over the last decades many stakeholders shift to include the patient more in the decision-making process and patients voice their needs and preferences more.

Still capturing and evaluating patient preferences does not belong to the core capabilities of most biostatisticians. This episode will help you to understand:

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Introduction to Benefit-Risk Assessment

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Interview with Maria Costa and Shahrul Mt-Isa

Benefit-risk assessments are made by various stakeholders including sponsors, regulators, payers, physicians, and patients throughout the life-cycle of a treatment.

The understanding of data plays a vital role in weighting positive and negative effects of medications.

In this episode, we give you an introduction to what benefit-risk (BR) assessment is in order for you to understand your role.

We also cover the following topics:

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How to get most out of a conference

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Interview with Kate Taylor – chair of the PSI conference in 2019

Hopefully, you’re attending statistical conferences to learn more about the latest developments in the field. But of course, there’s much more to conferences than just the sessions.

In this episode, I’m chatting with Kate Taylor – the chair of the PSI conference 2019 in London- about how to get most out of a conference. Of course, we take the upcoming PSI conference as an example.

In this episode, we talk about

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Data science or just statistics on non-medical data? A new horizon for statisticians

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Interview with Stephen Ruberg

There’s a long tradition of statisticians working on clinical studies as well as other related data, e.g. pre-clinical data and observational data. In the advent of big data and data sciences, there’s a considerable pull from the business side of pharma to employ statistical approaches as well.

This leads to questions like:

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