A global pharmaceutical company achieves effective and efficient literature surveillance for targeted therapy areas

A global biopharmaceutical company focused on developing life-changing therapies for people living with rare disorders.

• The client was finding it hard to track and monitor updates in specific therapy areas periodically due to the massive volume of publications published every day.
• The client required support to maintain expertise in monitoring and evaluating literature for scientific relevance, PV Safety reporting, and other needs within specific therapy areas.
• The requirement included effective search and evaluation of relevant literature and down selecting and presenting relevant cases summarized into consolidated reports.

• Coining keywords, search strings, and search strategy for each indication and setting up alerts in scientific databases (EMBASE, PubMed, and Google scholar) to receive alerts daily
• Daily activities included collation of alerts from all databases, de-duplication, analyzing of publications based on pre-defined inclusion and exclusion criteria, preparing daily emailer for each indication, and sharing with the client by their morning time
• Preparing the monthly report for each indication. Preparing the reference binder by including the full texts for all the selected publications and also uploading those full texts to Mendeley
• Reviewing each search strategy on a bi-annual basis to ensure its comprehensiveness