WHO · GRADE Working Group · IETS
We bring evidence-based methods into the committees, panels and processes where health decisions actually get made. Clinical epidemiology and study design, evidence synthesis, GRADE guidelines and qualitative research.
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Why we exist
A clinical recommendation, a coverage decision, an access dossier: each is only as good as the method behind it. Leave that method unwritten and the conclusion falls apart the moment anyone questions it.
We work the other way round: question and analytical framework first, search second. We document every judgement: what went in, what stayed out, with what certainty and why. That trail is what lets you defend your decision to a committee, a peer reviewer or an auditor.
How we work with GRADE
What we do
Six capabilities that share a single starting point: the question put properly, and a method able to answer it.
We automate screening, extraction and literature surveillance. We do not automate the certainty judgement or the interpretation: that stays human, and it goes on the record.
Focus area
Few patients means thin evidence, and the usual methods fail. That is precisely where methodological judgement decides whether a decision will hold.
In rare diseases you almost never have a large trial, a clean comparator or established outcomes. Follow the standard handbook and you get very low certainty and a paralysed committee. The skill lies in knowing what imperfect evidence will support, and stating the uncertainty openly rather than burying it.
Patient registries, natural history, real-world evidence and formal expert consensus, with the perspective of patients and carers built in through qualitative research.
See how we work in rare diseases
In numbers
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We have also worked with PAHO, Colombia's IETS and the ARIA-EAACI group. See the full output.
Next step
Thirty minutes with a senior methodologist. You come away with a scope, a proposed method and a realistic sense of timings. Free, no obligation.