1. Merqurio
Scientific consulting service in bibliographic
searches and requests to Medical management
units

2. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
Relational trends, requirementes
Medical management units of pharmaceutical companies receive a great deal of
daily requests for scientific insights from the network of their detailers or from
physicians and pharmacists directly.
Meeting these needs is often difficult and expensive, especially when specific
competences and bibliographic services are required. Furthermore, these needs
can sometimes be more or less complex and their quantity may vary over time.
Merqurio, in response to these needs, has launched a scientific consulting service
in cooperation with the most qualified experts in different medical areas. They are
able to provide an answer to the multiple requests for medical and scientific
consultancy.

3. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
Relational trends

4. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
Guarantees
 Quality Certification ISO 9001:2008.
 Supervision and coordination by Prof. Rimoli, University "Federico II" of Naples Faculty of
Pharmacy.
 Highly specialized Staff in pharmaceutical and scientific fields, provided with advanced degrees
and PhD in Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
 Regular attendance to training courses held by Mario Negri Institute, focusing on bibliographic
research and treatment of medical information.
 Previous experience with pharmaceutical companies, documented by successful case
histories.
 Proven experience in the field of medical and scientific consulting service.
 Working Group with extensive experience in managing bibliographic services, medical
research activities and pharmacovigilance.
 Merqurio's internal drugs database including technical specifications.
 Application "drugs and interactions" that shows the interactions between drugs by comparing
the data sheets.

5. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
Performance
 Team of specialists with top-notch skills in bibliographic searches, scientific literature
reviews, drafting and revision of scientific documents, monitored by an internal supervisor;
 Highly experienced team in the translation of scientific texts from English into Italian and
Italian into English.
 Access to updated sources such as scientific references, corporate document archives,
institutional archives, journals;
 Process and flow management through IT systems;
 Knowledge of normative documents on privacy (D.Lgs 06/08/2001 n. 231),
pharmacovigilance, advertising of medical products (Decree 219/2006) and their
compliance.

6. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
Target
Target: Patients
 Guidelines
 Dosing and methods of administration
 Safety
 Interactions
 Qualitative and quantitative composition

7. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
Target
Internal target of pharmaceutical company (marketing, medical, tenders, etc.)
 Details about diseases/therapies
 Guidelines
 Publications
 Updates

8. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
Activities
Written answers to questions
Writing articles
Drafting and editing of slide kits in the medical-scientific field
 Specialized literature searches (free search / Mesh Database) on scientific databases of
articles and abstracts for conferences presentations (Pubmed / Medline, Embase, Scopus)
Scientific translations from English into Italian and Italian into English
Collect information on Pharmacovigilance reports
Revision of existing material in corporate databases
Updating information when existing resources are not recent (more than 1 year)
Italian translation of documents from other languages
Drafting of standard scientific letters in case of product changes/variations

9. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
About products
To deliver qualified answers to all requests for medical and scientific insights, Merqurio
provides its experts with an updated and comprehensive database.
Some information:
 Product-related scientific references
 Corporate document archives
 Institutional archives
 Specialized journals
 Etc.

10. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
Bibliographic
searches
Every bibliographic search is supplied with 2-3 full-text articles (if available).
The articles are found in the libraries of the client company or retrieved from
external sources.
Every search is accompanied by an explanation which describes methodologies,
criteria and sources used.
Each request is processed on average within 24 hours, maximum within 5 working
days, depending on the difficulty in obtaining information.

11. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
A customized
service
The Medical Service is able to offer a customized service to best meet the
individual needs of corporate customers in terms of type, quantity and
management of activities.
Requests on
call, from toll
free, on
ticket
Reception
sorting
analysis
execution
delivery
of all requests
(internal and external).
execution
of a one type of activity

12. Medical and Scientific consulting
services
Standard letters
Working example
Standard letters are "answers" to questions received more frequently from every
company.
Merqurio, after retrieving the original questions, evaluates the responses according to
the last updates, latest discoveries and new studies.
All standard letters and updates will be provided with the original documents quoted in
the bibliography.
The bibliography will be attached at no extra costs along with the publication of the
disclaimer related to the type of contribution.
The service ensures maximum care and attention to the criteria of reliability and
consistency with the official guidelines for every published product.

13. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
Editing
The coordination and supervision of experts’ work is carried out by an internal
editorial staff that is in charge with:
Collecting users’ needs and communicating them to experts
Evaluating and ensuring a high-quality level of contents management
Maintaining relationships with experts in order to obtain their full cooperation

14. Medical and Scientific consulting
service
Editing
The advantages of Merqurio service solutions:
Payment of the service with contract or pre-paid ticket
Provision of a fast and reliable services
Possibility to outsource only a part of the requests
Possibility to monitor and measure quality standards

15. “It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent that
survives. It is the one that is the most
adaptable to change.”
Charles Darwin
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