Research Guides: Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences: Finding and Managing Data

Get Help with Data and Statistics

For help finding data or statistics, start by contacting your subject librarian.

For help using R, check out the Research Commons workshops and one-on-one consultations.

For help managing your own research data, please see the Research Data Management guide.

For help analyzing or using data, UBC's Department of Statistics offers a range of free and fee-based services. The Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences also offers fee-based statistical consulting.

Finding Existing Data

UBC Library Guide: Health Statistics & Data
Directory of health data sources, including tips on using the Canadian Community Health Survey via Dataverse, links to health data repositories, and statistical sources at the provincial, federal and international levels.

Finding Regulatory and Unpublished Study Data

Clinical study reports are extensive documents produced by pharmaceutical companies for regulatory agencies such as Health Canada, the FDA or EMA. Sometimes summaries of clinical study reports are available online, but obtaining the full report may not be possible.

Some pharmaceutical companies are now allowing researchers more access to the data included in CSRs and ongoing clinical trials. For more information see:

Clinical Information - Health Canada
Portal launched in 2019 to host clinical study reports for drugs and devices.
Drugs@FDA database
Check the "Approval History" section of a drug's record to look for details on study data.
Clinical Study Data Request
Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials: Data Access
Directory of pharmaceutical company data sharing policies and contacts.
Beyond PubMed: searching the "grey literature" for clinical trial results
How to use FDA drug approval documents for evidence syntheses
Ladanie Aviv et al, BMJ 2018; 362 :k2815
Vivli
Includes data from over 4000 clinical trials, from 8 companies.