The next PSI Journal Club features two papers on the topic of “The Use of External Controls in Clinical Trials”. The webinar will be held on the 6th July 2021 from 4-5pm BST and will be hosted over Zoom. Register for the webinar here. 

Please join to hear Chris Harbron (Roche) and Margaret Gamalo (Pfizer) present their recent work. The webinar will be chaired by Nigel Stallard (Warwick University). The papers presented were both published in Pharmaceutical Statistics. 

Chris Harbron will speak about “The use of external controls: To what extent can it currently be recommended?” written with Hans Ulrich Burger, Christoph Gerlinger, Armin Koch, Martin Posch, Justine Rochon, and Anja Schiel. 

Margaret Gamalo will present “Propensity score matched augmented controls in randomized clinical trials: A case study” written with Junjing Lin and  Ram Tiwari. 

For each of paper, there will be a 20 minutes presentation by the author followed by a 10 minute discussion. 

The webinar is sponsored by Wiley and both articles will be free to access for a few weeks before and after the webinar. Audio recordings will also become available shortly after the Journal Club to view from the PSI website. For more information about the event, visit the PSI website.