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EMPIRICA STUDY
Benefits of Empirica Study Review Safety Data from Completed Studies
The Empirica Study Safety Review interface is designed to support the workflow outlined
• Provides a scientific framework for proactive
in the FDA 2005 Safety Review Guidance*. A first step in reviewing any study is to get a
review of the safety profile of emerging products
demographic overview of the study population by treatment group and a summary of
• Supports a more active and transparent safety some critical enrollment parameters. From this interface you can also get a Kaplan Meier
review process plot or exposure summary graph to gain a high-level overview of the study data.
• Provides easily navigable access to clinical trials
safety data
• Supports analysis of single study or pooled
studies
• Interactive visual displays allow exploration of
Demographics, Adverse events, Concomitant
Medications, Labs, ECG, Vital Signs, Completion
and other study data
• Enables rapid, on-line assessment of safety data
for routine review, exploratory analysis, and
characterization of potential signals:
• Rapid on-line access to advanced graphical/
visualisation tools
• The ability to rapidly navigate from aggregate Explore Safety Data for In-stream Blinded Trials
data displays to individual patient profiles Empirica Study provides a rich portfolio of graphical displays to understand overall
• Ability to review data by Age, Gender or Race safety trends and outliers when the study is active and treatment is blinded. For
example, one can see several outliers in the liver function test shift display below, and
• Provides a broad library of standard analysis
then drill down to examine the individual patterns for each of the individual patients.
types and tabular displays
System Requirements:
Web application with Oracle® database
Server-centric architecture
• Supported on Microsoft® Windows® 2003
Advanced Server platform
• Suitable for integration with other applications,
such as clinical safety systems
Explore Adverse Event Data
Reported Adverse Events (AEs) and Serious Adverse Events (SAEs) can be compared
across treatment groups and explored at all MedDRA levels (including Standardized
MedDRA Queries and custom event lists) using Empirica Study’s signal scores, tabular
displays and graphical tools. The example below shows a cumulative incidence display
for nausea and vomiting, together with a display of the odds ratio screening result
with confidence intervals.
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