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Patient Safety First - A Programmer's Silent Responsibility
In clinical trials, ensuring patient safety is not only the responsibility of medical monitors and clinicians but statistical programmers too.
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Data Integrity Checklist for Statistical Programmers
Great science starts with clean, reliable data. Every value in a dataset should earn your trust.
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Automation and AI in Clinical Trial Reporting - Verisian Community Podcast
In this podcast, Shafi reflects on his journey into statistical programming and explores the increasing role of automation in clinical trial reporting. He underscores AI's potential to improve efficiency, oversight, and traceability while emphasizing its most effective implementation in clinical trial processes.
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Metalytics: The Future of Clinical Reporting
The PSI Conference 2023 in London is the perfect opportunity for pharmaceutical sponsors and CROs to learn about the latest innovations in clinical reporting. One of the most exciting new technologies on the market is Metalytics, a clinical reporting tool from Shafi Consultancy.
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Register for our Virtual Session: Increasing efficiency through metadata-driven automation
We are delighted to invite you to join us for a 1-hour virtual presentation and technology demo on Wednesday 29th September 2021 at 3pm UK time.
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Are these the only challenges we face in reporting clinical trials?
The key challenges programming teams face when reporting clinical trials are oversight, standards, programming environments and reusability of code. I am sure there are others and I would be very happy to hear about the challenges faced by the different organisational structures.
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Why we mustn’t let perfection be the enemy in our fight for automation
In this blog, Shafi Chowdhury previews some highlights and perspectives from his upcoming talk at the PHUSE EMEA Spring SDE on Tuesday 4th May 2021. The SDE will focus on enhancing productivity through automation, and central coding repositories and Shafi will contribute his insights from his decades of experience.
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How do you keep consistent symbols across figures even when a treatment is missing?
#Visualisation is becoming more and more prominent in our daily work, and presenting #plots among the many different types of visualisations are as common today as it has ever been. With this in mind, one issue that I see always comes up is with regards to consistent symbols being used to represent a treatment or group across many #figures. There is nothing more confusing than having a symbol that represents one group in one plot then representing a different group in another plot.
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Metalytics Eco-system
“Practice does not make perfect, perfection makes perfect”. One of the most memorable quotes someone once mentioned during a training session almost 25 years ago. Presenting Metalytics V2.04, in pursuit of perfection for a system that efficiently allows us to perform tasks we need to do.
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Are you making the most of your metadata repository?
In recent years, metadata repositories (MDRs) have become an important tool to help sponsors manage their data standards and maintain metadata definitions across the organisation. The scope of these repositories varies from one company to another, ranging from a dedicated MDR with fully evolved and connected systems to a more piecemeal combination of tools and databases.
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