Meta-analysis & systematic review

UBC is a leading provider of systematic literature review and meta-analysis services to support evidence-based health care decisions. Our systematic review methodology and expertise have been cultivated over 14 years.

UBC research scientists are world-recognized experts who work with clients to transform extracted information into credible, documented evidence and provide scientifically rigorous support for clinical trial design, risk management policies, regulatory submissions, commercialization strategies and product life cycle management.

We have expertise in:

  • Rapid ReviewsSM
  • Systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses
  • Gap analyses
  • Mixed Treatment Comparison
  • Strategic consulting

Using these tools, we help clients:

  • Develop an early understanding of treatment and disease landscapes
  • Inform clinical trial design with benchmarks for efficacy and safety
  • Compare products for efficacy and safety when head-to-head trials do not exist
  • Identify future therapeutic areas for supplemental indications
  • Evaluate and quantify efficacy, safety and dosing claims
  • Determine literature gaps overall or for your products

Supporting our work is EvidenceHub™, an online application that provides access to data from customized client projects, as well as standard disease or therapeutic-specific data sets. EvidenceHub™ allows researchers to assess and organize vast amounts of data that have been systematically reviewed. The database can be leveraged to gain insight in various medical topics by drilling down into specific areas of interest, filtering, sorting, reporting and exporting data into customizable formats.

EvidenceHub™ is powered by MetaHub™, UBC's online relational database containing comprehensive data compiled from systematic reviews of published medical literature from over 8,000 studies and eight million patients.

UBC clients use EvidenceHub™ to:

  • Strengthen knowledge of specific health care and drug development issues with instant access to qualified data sets from completed systematic literature reviews
  • Speed up and enhance the decision process on product development and claims based on documented, real-world evidence
  • Perform rapid benchmarking to evaluate the competitive landscape