HEALTHCARE

Today's healthcare system faces numerous challenges. What should we do to provide better healthcare to those who need it most? Is the new measure safe and effective? Washington Scientific can help its clients to answer these questions and to implement a solution safely and effectively.

METHODS AND DISCIPLINES THAT WASHINGTON SCIENTIFIC USES:
  • Risk management
  • Clinical practice guidelines
  • Health outcomes research
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis
  • Systemic review
  • Economic impact analysis
  • Patient safety measures
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Pharmacovigilance study

HEALTH EFFECTS

  • Evidence-based medicine
  • Carcinogenesis
  • Human risk assessment
  • Disease risk factors
  • Association v. causation
  • Animal data v. human health
  • General causation v. individual causation
  • Analysis of environmental exposure modeling
  • Evaluation of admissibility of scientific evidence in courts
  • Disease susceptibility issue

SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES

  • Risk management principles
  • Epidemiologic principles
  • Toxicologic principles
  • The Supreme Court’s trilogy on the admissibility of expert testimony
  • Causation criteria