Our Expertise and
Resources, Your
Advantage
Your project deserves the attention of an experienced researcher. The Medlior team includes professionals from a variety of backgrounds, working in multidisciplinary teams, enabling our experts to offer valuable insights to your project. Through client and provider collaboration, robust scientific methods, and insightful analytics, Medlior delivers accurate and meaningful evidence to inform your research queries while working within your timeframe and budget.
See all of our services below and click here to view all of our latest publications. Additionally, you can view our Medlior 2022 Brochure, outlining all of our services by clicking here.
Click image to enlarge Real World Solutions
As an independent research organization, Medlior can request de-identified patient data (real world data) from provincial health systems. Our team has the advantage of direct experience working with real world data from Alberta’s health system. Real World Evidence projects can be designed to provide researchers with a broader, more diverse patient population over longer study periods, giving researchers the opportunity to use insights to complement current clinical trial evidence.
- We keep you strategic — by developing a focused research study protocol
- We provide expertise — by managing ethics approval and research agreements
- We keep you precise — by conducting complex data linkages and analysis
- We deliver results — with reports and dissemination plans that suit your needs
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Our range of analytical services are performed by our team of highly skilled biostatisticians and epidemiologists, who bring with them years of experience. Medlior will work diligently to establish a clear analytical plan, making sure that your questions are answered clearly and completely. Medlior researchers are equipped with the knowledge, experience, and tools necessary to fully support your individual analytical needs for each research project.
- We keep you strategic — by developing customized analytical plans
- We keep you robust — with rigorous data cleaning/verification
- We keep you precise — by executing advanced statistical analyses:
- Data linkages across multiple sources
- Descriptive and complex statistics
- Randomized controlled trial analysis
- Quantitative synthesis of literature (e.g. pair-wise comparisons or network meta-analyses)
- We save you time — by tailoring our projects to meet your timelines and budget
- We add value — with clinically meaningful and accurate reporting
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We offer superior support for health technology submissions at a cost-effective rate in both Canada and the UK. Medlior brings expertise in preparing submissions for NICE, the SMC and CADTH.
In preparing submission packages, we team up with our Strategic Partners to provide services that include: medical writing, literature reviews, statistical analyses, and strategic support.
Medlior’s commitment to client-focused project management and the delivery of results are reflected in our final products.
- We deliver expertise — by developing the value story
- We save you time — by customizing our work to meet your needs
- We add value — with clinically meaningful and accurate reporting
- We keep you precise — by preparing your evidence submission
- Systematic review and network meta-analysis
- Development of an economic model
- Company Evidence Submission (NICE) or New Product Assessment Form (SMC)
- Post-submission support
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Medlior employs a team of health economists and industry experts, ready to work with you to develop the most suitable model to answer your research questions. Medlior also maintains valuable working relationships with our Strategic Partners to ensure that we have the top experts from relevant fields to provide your project the insight it deserves.
- We bring our insights — by adapting global models to meet payer needs
- We keep you informed — with landscape studies to identify key inputs for models
- We keep you regional — with Canadian- and UK-specific budget impact models
- We advise — by offering strategic consulting to inform reimbursement submissions
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At Medlior, we pair our clinical experience from a variety of therapeutic areas along with methodological expertise in literature reviews. Whether it be informing a Health Technology Assessment, developing a Global Value Dossier, or producing a stand-alone publication, the Medlior team is experienced in completing scoping reviews, rapid reviews and robust systematic reviews utilizing established Cochrane Collaboration methodology.
- We provide our insight — by developing rigorous study protocols
- We keep you structured — by executing reproducible search strategies
- We deliver expertise — by selecting, appraising and extracting the right evidence
- We provide analytics — by utilizing meta- or network meta-analysis (when appropriate)
- We deliver solutions — with meaningful and accurate reporting to inform your decisions
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We use online searches to compile evidence and information on a variety of health topics, from sources such as governmental reports, health technology assessments, clinical guidelines, and policy documents from professional organizations or associations. When appropriate, these online searches may be paired with interviews or focus groups to collect perspectives from key opinion leaders or other stakeholders. Medlior will work diligently to make sure that you are provided with a complete summary and a comprehensive understanding of your research topic.
- We deliver solutions — by establishing research questions and search strategies
- We save you time — by tailoring our proposals to meet your needs and objectives
- We keep you concise — with meaningful synthesis and interpretation of the evidence
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Medlior’s team of medical writers have a proven track record demonstrated by an extensive list of peer-review and conference publications. Our team will work diligently and communicate clearly to ensure meaningful interpretations and clear knowledge translation. We follow a variety of writing styles, including but not limited to: APA Style Guide, Canadian Style Guide, and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Guidelines.
- We deliver support — by compiling your evidence dossiers for reimbursement activities
- We save you time — by tailoring our proposals to meet your needs and objectives
- We keep you accurate — with expert editing (including fact-checking)
Click image to enlarge 2023 Workshop Series
Medlior is offering a workshop series in 2023 to inform hot topics in HEOR to our clients and collaborators.
First up this year is our Canadian RWD 101 workshop, the objectives include:
1.Introduction to RWD/RWE
2.Overview of Canadian RWD sources
•Pros and cons for industry-sponsored studies
3.Process and requirements for accessing data
4.Latest trends
•Outcomes-based agreements
•CADTH and INESSS guidance
•Global applications
5.Case study examples
The workshop is 2 hours and led by Tara Cowling, Founder and President of Medlior, and Eileen Shaw, Principal of RWE at Medlior.
Next is our GRADE workshop, where the objectives are the following:
1.Overview of CADTH procedures for manufacturer clinical evidence
•Former –vs– New changes (October 2022)
2.Introduction to the GRADE tool
3.Live demonstration of the GRADE tool
4.International use of GRADE for HTA
The workshop is 3-hours and is lead by Tara Cowling, Founder and President of Medlior, and Dr Ahmed Abou-Setta, Director of Knowledge Synthesis, George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (University of Manitoba) and Manitoba SPOR SUPPORT Unit.
The workshops will be hosted by Medlior on the Zoom platform. Organizational attendance is limited to 100 attendees.
The cost for these workshops is $6400 CAD each for an organization and $500 for an individual. After the meeting, a PDF copy of the presentation slide deck along with Q&A meeting notes will be provided.
**stay tuned for additional workshops on hot RWE topics of predictive analytics and health system costing using administrative data for life cycle planning.
For more information, please contact us at info@medlior.com
How Can We Help
Our team is comprised of carefully selected professionals who work in their field of expertise guaranteeing that no matter which service you require, you will be working with an expert. Through comprehensive processes, access to specialized research tools, and precise methodology, our experienced specialists bring value to every project. From consultation to completion, whatever your research questions are, they will be answered and explained clearly and concisely.
