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Contextual Fit
Evidence works when it is shaped for the setting where decisions happen.
Make evidence travel.
Strong evidence can fail to change decisions, not because it is wrong, but because it lacks context, traceability or clarity for the people who need to act on it. We review your draft evidence plan or health content early, identify those gaps while it can still be changed, and give you a written diagnosis with priorities for what to change or investigate.
For Medical Affairs, evidence-generation and health technology teams preparing evidence for regulators, payers, clinicians and patients.

Implementation science in practice: Steve co-led the MAPS Americas 2026 workshop on applying it in Medical Affairs.
View the official workshop listingPublications on patient preferences, evidence communication and AI methods.
See selected publicationsThe shared problem
Strong evidence and good content can pass the next review and still leave the people who need to use them unable to act. We call this the evidence-to-impact gap.
Bring us a study protocol, integrated evidence plan or piece of patient or clinician content before it is locked, and leave with a written list of what to change first. We look at what the next review needs, what later decision-makers will ask, and whether the evidence or content can be used in routine care.
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Evidence works when it is shaped for the setting where decisions happen.
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See where evidence came from, how it was built and how far to trust it.
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The people who need to act must be able to understand the evidence.
Start with the draft in front of you
For R&D and evidence-generation plans
You are drafting a study or pilot protocol, integrated evidence plan, patient or clinician survey, or evidence generation strategy and want to identify gaps before it is locked.
Case: shaping a hospital study around the decision it must inform.
Explore evidence designFor patient and clinician communication
You are drafting patient or clinician materials, such as plain language summaries or infographics, or running a content workflow that produces them, and want to identify gaps before MLR review.
Case: advising an infographic study to measure patient understanding, not only preference.
Explore evidence communicationThe research behind the practice
Large language models now help produce and explain health evidence. They can be powerful tools, but the same question can get different answers, and people need to know how far to rely on them. We study LLM reliability in registered work anyone can inspect.
A review of how empathy is measured and reported, with attention to variation and consistency.
Read the registrationA registered study of expressed empathy across repeated large language model responses. Registration is a study plan, not a result.
Read the registrationA 30-minute call to understand the decision, who makes it and what they need to see. If PEL is not the right fit, we will say so.