Detailed document review and quality control services across a wide range of disciplines in various R&D environments

Here's how we can support your corporate data management:

Search for relevant literature
- Define literature search strategy with inclusion and exclusion criteria
- Evaluate sources
- Conduct literature search on PubMed, Web of Science or Google Scholar
Identify major themes and gaps
- Select papers for analysis based on title and abstract
- Final selection of papers based on full text (pdf file)
- Extract data from selected papers
Write the literature review
- Outline the structure
- Analyze results from extracted data
- Summarize results

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Scientific Review

Structure checks
- Overall structure and organization of content is precise and clear
- Communication of main points is targeted to the research purpose
- Flow of argument exists
- Document is internally consistent, i.e. portrayal of facts and observations is consistent
- Check for missing links in the ‘story’
- Are points well balanced, or are there some that are over covered or not enough covered
Scientific Language
- Adequate scientific language is used
- Appropriate scientific references from relevant literature/research are chosen to support the research
Scientific content and data
- Study rational is clearly articulated
- Design of study methods is appropriate
- Chosen analysis methods are appropriate
- Results are presented and interpreted in a comprehensible way
- Data is consistent – checks of data in text versus tables/figures/other evidence presented
- Every table, every figure and every scheme are clearly explained
- Strengths and limitations of the report are clearly defined
- Does the discussion place the findings in a wider context, and to what extent
- Is a balance achieved between interpretation and useful speculation
- Are the results compared with other similar published results
- Conclusions presented are supported by the results or evidence presented

Statistical Analysis

Identify appropriate statistical analyses that will address the target research questions
Perform power analysis to ensure that an adequate number of subjects is included in the study
Develop Statistical Analysis Plan, proposing adequate statistical analyses methods
Conduct statistical analysis with SAS, R or other software
Interpret statistical results
Consolidate statistical results in a report

Proofreading and Formatting

Formatting elements
- Establish a document template with main structure
- Format headings and sub-headings according to required format
- Include header and footer information with page numbering and other information
- Format text in paragraphs and bulleted/numbered lists consistently
- Include and update Table of Contents, Table of Tables, Table of Figures
- Format tables and figures
Proofreading elements
- Check for grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Consistent use of terminology and abbreviations
- Check for readability, logical break-ups into paragraphs and sentences
Scientific references
- Establish EndNotes (or other software) library document
- Include scientific references in the library
- Set-up the correct references display style, in accordance with submission requirements

Other Services

Regulatory submission support, e.g., for the US FDA
Development of a corporate style guide defining formatting rules and corporate elements
Online Staff Workshops and Training, e.g., Formatting Workshops or Scientific References Training
Translations of study-specific content, such as questionnaires, in various languages
Scientific Advisory Board set-up and management