Areas of Expertise and Services Offered
CMD Consulting provides epidemiologic and Outcomes Research services for a wide range of biotech and pharmaceutical clients. Specific consulting services include:
Epidemiology
- Estimate incidence and prevalence of disease
- Support the design and development of observational, qualitative, and real-world evidence studies within clinical programs, including conducting interviews with healthcare providers to inform market access
- Patient-centered clinical outcomes assessment (PCOA) strategies following regulatory guidance, including commercial and market access considerations
- Evaluate existing or build new conceptual disease models of the patient experience
- Determine responsiveness and meaningful change thresholds
- Summarize the competitive and regulatory experience of potential outcome measures
- Development of documents to support biologic license application
- Establish evidence and rationale to demonstrate that PCOAs meet regulatory guidance
- Literature reviews to support all phases of clinical development, including development of target product profile, clinical trial study design, and product launch
Health Economics and Outcomes Research
- Provide epidemiology and scientific input on budget impact models and cost utility analyses
- Development of population models
- Provide sources and estimates for model parameters, including population, utilities, costs, adverse events, and morbidity and mortality rates
Scientific Writing
- Develop and provide content and writing support for patient-reported outcome evidence dossiers, including AMCP dossiers for new molecules
- Write publications for submission to peer-reviewed journals to support publication of patient-centered outcomes for clinical trials
- Write abstracts for reporting results of real-world evidence studies and patient-centered outcomes in clinical trials for presentation at scientific conferences
- Develop and write internal study reports
Examples of Services Offered
- Literature review of the natural history of disease, including estimates of incidence and prevalence of the disease of interest
- Literature review on qualitative studies to support the conceptual model of a patient-reported outcome and development of the conceptual model
- Critical technical assessment of existing quality of life and patient-centered instruments
- Development of dossier materials to support inclusion of patient-centered outcome data in product labels in biologic license application
- Medical writing to summarize patient-centered outcome results in clinical trials
