| Working Groups Hot Topics |
PHUSE collaborations are organised into a number of specialist Working Groups, each with a broad topic area. The Working Groups have specific projects designed to achieve a set of particular objectives. |
This page will highlight the latest news and information from our projects. Participation is open to anyone who wants to contribute and if you would like to get involved, |
please email workinggroups@phuse.global. |
Projects Calling for Participants
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End-to-End Open–source Collaboration Guidance – Members
The use of open-source languages continues to increase in clinical reporting. This has helped shift pan-industry collaborations to move beyond the traditional domain of collaboration on statistical packages. Within multiple companies, we are seeing a shift where individuals may, as part of their role, contribute primarily to projects in the open-source setting. Numerous collaborations exist, with several coalescing under an umbrella collaboration called the pharmaverse. However, there remains a lack of understanding within companies around the benefits and risks of open sourcing.
This project is led by two presenters from the PHUSE CSS 2021 open-source panel and continues on from discussions and points at that event. The primary aim of the project is to provide guidance, collaboration and creation of open-source projects, as well as to link out to more information. If gaps are found, they will be noted for later follow-up and potential follow-on projects.
Estimands in Oncology Safety Task Force – Participants
The Pharmaceutical Industry Working Group on Estimands in Oncology in collaboration with PHUSE has started a Safety Task Force on estimands in safety, focusing on oncology. The Task Force will formulate recommendations regarding formulation and use of safety estimands in oncology clinical trials as well as identifying applications of estimands principles to help improve general safety reporting. Recommendations will include trial design, data collection, and analysis issues and ways to integrate clinical, statistical, operations, and data management aspects of study design and execution cooperatively. Key task force activities will include a dive into literature on the subject, formulation of recommendations, development of white papers, and preparation of journal manuscripts and conference presentations.
For more information, please contact Jonathan Siegel at Jonathan.siegel@bayer.com. For information on the Pharmaceutical Industry Working Group on Estimands in Oncology, please visit www.oncoestimand.com or contact Working Group co-chairs, Degtyarev Evgeny at evgeny.degtyarev@novartis.com or Kaspar Rufibach at kaspar.rufibach@roche.com.
Test Dataset Factory - Participants
Several Working Group projects develop and specify medical research methods, features or processes, and some even create software components or sub-systems for common tasks in drug development. As part of these efforts, a variety of SDTM or ADaM test datasets are required. The typical fallback position of project teams is to use data from the CDISC pilot project and/or anonymised study data that are provided by project team members. The Test Dataset Factory project aims to provide test data formatted in SDTM and ADaM that support a more systematic and comprehensive testing of these concepts and scripts.
The PHUSE Clinical Integrated Study Data Reviewers Guide project has prepared a final draft version of the iADRG. The guide provides regulatory reviewers with additional context for integrated analysis datasets received as part of a regulatory submission. The iADRG is intended to describe analysis data submitted for integrated data summaries (e.g., ISS, ISE, etc.)
The team is respectfully calling for public feedback on the iADRG which includes a template, completion guidelines and examples. Please submit any feedback by Monday 25 April to workinggroups@phuse.global by| PHUSE/FDA CSS 2024 | ||||||
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Registration for the PHUSE/FDA CSS 2024 is open! Come and be a part of the PHUSE/FDA Computational Science Symposium 2024 (CSS) taking place 3–5 June in Silver Spring, MD. Share your insights, discoveries and solutions with the PHUSE Community, who are eager to learn and collaborate.
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The Good Transparency Practices project within the Data Transparency Working Group, is now calling for feedback! This White Paper aims to define a set of best practices for data transparency and create a Good Transparency Practices guidance. The best practices will aim to ensure anonymised data is compliant with the legal requirements as defined by Regulators, as well as preserves as much data utility as possible. Please send in your comments to workinggroups@phuse.global by 3 May. |
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The Best Data Practices for Rare Disease Patient Foundations and Researchers within the Real World Evidence Working Group, has published a new deliverable in the form of a poster. The poster provides an overview of Ensuring Registry Data Relevance and Reliability for Regulatory Use. The PHUSE data standards community, which is comprised of leaders and experts responsible for the governance and implementation of data standards across the biopharmaceutical industry, have authored and new White Paper. The Data Standards White Paper highlights current challenges in data standardisation across the biopharma industry and identify opportunities where we can work together to tackle them. The SDTM ADaM Implementation FAQ within Optimizing the Use of Data Standards Working Group have published a new FAQ! The question they have answered is 'Naming Convention for Split RS Domain', you can view this question and the teams response viaValidation/Conformance Rules page. You can see all the FAQ this project has answered so far via here. Do you have a SDTM ADaM question? You can send your questions to the team by emailing workinggroups@phuse.global. |
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The Data Visualisation & Open Source Technology Working Group has a new project, Demonstrating Real-World Impact of Modernization of Statistical Analytics (MSA) Framework.This project aims to extend the MSA framework by creating a reference architecture that takes into account real-world scenarios and design solutions to remediate them, ultimately providing a practical guide to building an end-to-end validated environment for regulated work. Companies seeking to build an open-source programming environment for regulatory reporting can leverage the MSA framework for guidance. However, since the framework is designed to be both flexible and extensible, implementing it may prove challenging for companies, resulting in situations where risks are not sufficiently mitigated. While the original MSA paper provided conceptual guidance, the PHUSE handover of the project will seek to provide an overview of practical implementations of the framework being applied. This project is calling for volunteers, to join contact workinggroups@phuse.global by 26 April. The Safety Analytics Working Group is looking for a new Working Group Lead to join their team. This Working Group is a cross-disciplinary collaboration working to improve the content and implementation of clinical trial safety analyses for medical research, leading to better data interpretations and increased efficiency in the clinical drug development and review processes. Click here to see a list of current projects within this Working Group. Learn more about the roles and the responsibilities of a Working Group Lead and apply by emailing workinggroups@phuse.global. Closing date 26 April. Multiple projects within Working Groups are open to join. PHUSE welcomes new members who can apply their knowledge to bring fresh ideas and contribute to the ongoing work of PHUSE projects. For more information, click here, read the Welcome Pack or email workinggroups@phuse.global. |
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