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Pragmatic Free Trial Meta
Pragmatic Free Trial Meta is a non-commercial, open data platform and infrastructure that facilitates research on pragmatic trials. It collects and distributes clean trial data, ratings and evaluations using PRECIS-2. This permits a variety of meta-epidemiological studies to compare treatment effect estimates across trials with different levels of pragmatism.
Background
Pragmatic trials are becoming more widely acknowledged as providing evidence from the real world for clinical decision-making. However, the use of the term "pragmatic" is not consistent and its definition as well as assessment requires clarification. Pragmatic trials should be designed to inform clinical practice and 프라그마틱 카지노 (news) policy decisions, rather than confirm an hypothesis that is based on a clinical or physiological basis. A pragmatic trial should also aim to be as similar to actual clinical practice as possible, including in the recruitment of participants, setting and design as well as the execution of the intervention, as well as the determination and analysis of outcomes and primary analyses. This is a major distinction between explanatory trials as described by Schwartz and Lellouch1 that are designed to test the hypothesis in a more thorough manner.
Trials that are truly pragmatic must be careful not to blind patients or healthcare professionals as this could result in bias in estimates of treatment effects. The trials that are pragmatic should also try to recruit patients from a wide range of health care settings, to ensure that their findings can be applied to the real world.
Additionally the focus of pragmatic trials should be on outcomes that are important for patients, such as quality of life or functional recovery. This is particularly important for trials that involve invasive procedures or have potentially dangerous adverse impacts. The CRASH trial29 compared a 2-page report with an electronic monitoring system for patients in hospitals suffering from chronic cardiac failure. The catheter trial28, however was based on symptomatic catheter-related urinary tract infection as its primary outcome.
In addition to these aspects, pragmatic trials should minimize the trial procedures and data collection requirements in order to reduce costs. Additionally, pragmatic trials should aim to make their results as applicable to current clinical practice as is possible. This can be accomplished by ensuring that their primary analysis is based on the intention-to treat method (as defined in CONSORT extensions).
Despite these guidelines, a number of RCTs with features that defy pragmatism have been incorrectly self-labeled pragmatic and published in journals of all kinds. This can lead to misleading claims of pragmatism and the usage of the term should be standardized. The creation of the PRECIS-2 tool, which offers an objective standard for assessing practical features, is a good first step.
Methods
In a practical study the aim is to inform clinical or policy decisions by demonstrating how an intervention could be integrated into routine treatment in real-world contexts. This differs from explanation trials, which test hypotheses about the cause-effect relationship in idealised situations. In this way, pragmatic trials can have lower internal validity than explanation studies and are more susceptible to biases in their design, analysis, and conduct. Despite their limitations, pragmatic studies can provide valuable information to make decisions in the healthcare context.
The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates the level of pragmatism that is present in an RCT by scoring it across 9 domains ranging from 1 (very explicit) to 5 (very pragmatic). In this study, the areas of recruitment, organization and flexibility in delivery, flexible adherence, and follow-up scored high. However, the main outcome and the method of missing data were scored below the practical limit. This suggests that it is possible to design a trial that has high-quality pragmatic features, without damaging the quality of its outcomes.
It is difficult to determine the amount of pragmatism within a specific trial because pragmatism does not possess a specific characteristic. Some aspects of a study may be more pragmatic than others. A trial's pragmatism could be affected by modifications to the protocol or the logistics during the trial. Koppenaal and colleagues found that 36% of the 89 pragmatic studies were placebo-controlled or conducted prior to licensing. Most were also single-center. They are not in line with the usual practice and can only be considered pragmatic if their sponsors accept that such trials aren't blinded.
Another common aspect of pragmatic trials is that researchers try to make their results more valuable by studying subgroups of the trial sample. This can lead to unbalanced results and lower statistical power, increasing the risk of either not detecting or misinterpreting the results of the primary outcome. In the case of the pragmatic trials included in this meta-analysis this was a significant problem because the secondary outcomes were not adjusted to account for the differences in the baseline covariates.
Additionally the pragmatic trials may present challenges in the collection and interpretation of safety data. This is because adverse events are typically reported by participants themselves and are prone to reporting delays, inaccuracies, or coding variations. It is crucial to improve the accuracy and quality of the outcomes in these trials.
Results
While the definition of pragmatism may not require that all trials are 100% pragmatic, there are advantages of including pragmatic elements in clinical trials. These include:
Increasing sensitivity to real-world issues, reducing cost and size of the study, and enabling the trial results to be faster translated into actual clinical practice (by including patients who are routinely treated). But pragmatic trials can have their disadvantages. For instance, the right kind of heterogeneity can allow the trial to apply its findings to a variety of patients and settings; however the wrong type of heterogeneity could reduce assay sensitivity, and thus decrease the ability of a trial to detect minor treatment effects.
Several studies have attempted to classify pragmatic trials using different definitions and scoring methods. Schwartz and Lellouch1 created a framework to distinguish between explanation-based trials that support the clinical or physiological hypothesis and pragmatic trials that aid in the selection of appropriate treatments in clinical practice. The framework was comprised of nine domains assessed on a scale of 1-5 which indicated that 1 was more informative and 5 being more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment and 프라그마틱 정품확인 setting, delivery of intervention with flexibility, follow-up and primary analysis.
The initial PRECIS tool3 included similar domains and a scale of 1 to 5. Koppenaal and colleagues10 developed an adaptation to this assessment called the Pragmascope which was more user-friendly to use in systematic reviews. They found that pragmatic systematic reviews had a higher average score in most domains, but lower scores in the primary analysis domain.
The difference in the primary analysis domain could be due to the fact that most pragmatic trials analyse their data in the intention to treat manner however some explanation trials do not. The overall score was lower for systematic reviews that were pragmatic when the domains on organisation, flexible delivery, and follow-up were merged.
It is important to remember that a pragmatic study should not mean that a trial is of poor quality. In fact, there are a growing number of clinical trials which use the term 'pragmatic' either in their abstract or title (as defined by MEDLINE, but that is not precise nor sensitive). The use of these terms in abstracts and titles may suggest a greater awareness of the importance of pragmatism but it isn't clear if this is evident in the contents of the articles.
Conclusions
In recent times, pragmatic trials are increasing in popularity in research because the importance of real-world evidence is increasingly recognized. They are randomized clinical trials which compare real-world treatment options instead of experimental treatments in development, they have patients which are more closely resembling those treated in routine care, they use comparators which exist in routine practice (e.g., existing drugs) and rely on participant self-report of outcomes. This method is able to overcome the limitations of observational research for example, the biases associated with the reliance on volunteers, and the limited availability and the coding differences in national registry.
Other advantages of pragmatic trials include the ability to utilize existing data sources, and a greater probability of detecting significant changes than traditional trials. However, pragmatic trials may still have limitations that undermine their validity and generalizability. For example the participation rates in certain trials may be lower than anticipated due to the healthy-volunteer effect as well as financial incentives or competition for participants from other research studies (e.g. industry trials). The requirement to recruit participants in a timely fashion also reduces the size of the sample and impact of many pragmatic trials. Some pragmatic trials also lack controls to ensure that the observed differences aren't due to biases in the trial.
The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified 48 RCTs that self-described themselves as pragmatic and that were published until 2022. The PRECIS-2 tool was employed to assess the pragmatism of these trials. It covers areas like eligibility criteria, recruitment flexibility, adherence to intervention, and follow-up. They found that 14 of these trials scored pragmatic or highly sensible (i.e. scoring 5 or higher) in any one or more of these domains and that the majority of these were single-center.
Studies with high pragmatism scores are likely to have broader criteria for eligibility than traditional RCTs. They also include populations from many different hospitals. The authors claim that these characteristics can help make pragmatic trials more meaningful and applicable to everyday practice, 프라그마틱 슬롯 but they do not necessarily guarantee that a trial using a pragmatic approach is completely free of bias. The pragmatism characteristic is not a definite characteristic; a pragmatic test that doesn't have all the characteristics of an explicative study could still yield valid and useful outcomes.
Pragmatic Free Trial Meta is a non-commercial, open data platform and infrastructure that facilitates research on pragmatic trials. It collects and distributes clean trial data, ratings and evaluations using PRECIS-2. This permits a variety of meta-epidemiological studies to compare treatment effect estimates across trials with different levels of pragmatism.
Background
Pragmatic trials are becoming more widely acknowledged as providing evidence from the real world for clinical decision-making. However, the use of the term "pragmatic" is not consistent and its definition as well as assessment requires clarification. Pragmatic trials should be designed to inform clinical practice and 프라그마틱 카지노 (news) policy decisions, rather than confirm an hypothesis that is based on a clinical or physiological basis. A pragmatic trial should also aim to be as similar to actual clinical practice as possible, including in the recruitment of participants, setting and design as well as the execution of the intervention, as well as the determination and analysis of outcomes and primary analyses. This is a major distinction between explanatory trials as described by Schwartz and Lellouch1 that are designed to test the hypothesis in a more thorough manner.
Trials that are truly pragmatic must be careful not to blind patients or healthcare professionals as this could result in bias in estimates of treatment effects. The trials that are pragmatic should also try to recruit patients from a wide range of health care settings, to ensure that their findings can be applied to the real world.
Additionally the focus of pragmatic trials should be on outcomes that are important for patients, such as quality of life or functional recovery. This is particularly important for trials that involve invasive procedures or have potentially dangerous adverse impacts. The CRASH trial29 compared a 2-page report with an electronic monitoring system for patients in hospitals suffering from chronic cardiac failure. The catheter trial28, however was based on symptomatic catheter-related urinary tract infection as its primary outcome.In addition to these aspects, pragmatic trials should minimize the trial procedures and data collection requirements in order to reduce costs. Additionally, pragmatic trials should aim to make their results as applicable to current clinical practice as is possible. This can be accomplished by ensuring that their primary analysis is based on the intention-to treat method (as defined in CONSORT extensions).
Despite these guidelines, a number of RCTs with features that defy pragmatism have been incorrectly self-labeled pragmatic and published in journals of all kinds. This can lead to misleading claims of pragmatism and the usage of the term should be standardized. The creation of the PRECIS-2 tool, which offers an objective standard for assessing practical features, is a good first step.
Methods
In a practical study the aim is to inform clinical or policy decisions by demonstrating how an intervention could be integrated into routine treatment in real-world contexts. This differs from explanation trials, which test hypotheses about the cause-effect relationship in idealised situations. In this way, pragmatic trials can have lower internal validity than explanation studies and are more susceptible to biases in their design, analysis, and conduct. Despite their limitations, pragmatic studies can provide valuable information to make decisions in the healthcare context.
The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates the level of pragmatism that is present in an RCT by scoring it across 9 domains ranging from 1 (very explicit) to 5 (very pragmatic). In this study, the areas of recruitment, organization and flexibility in delivery, flexible adherence, and follow-up scored high. However, the main outcome and the method of missing data were scored below the practical limit. This suggests that it is possible to design a trial that has high-quality pragmatic features, without damaging the quality of its outcomes.
It is difficult to determine the amount of pragmatism within a specific trial because pragmatism does not possess a specific characteristic. Some aspects of a study may be more pragmatic than others. A trial's pragmatism could be affected by modifications to the protocol or the logistics during the trial. Koppenaal and colleagues found that 36% of the 89 pragmatic studies were placebo-controlled or conducted prior to licensing. Most were also single-center. They are not in line with the usual practice and can only be considered pragmatic if their sponsors accept that such trials aren't blinded.
Another common aspect of pragmatic trials is that researchers try to make their results more valuable by studying subgroups of the trial sample. This can lead to unbalanced results and lower statistical power, increasing the risk of either not detecting or misinterpreting the results of the primary outcome. In the case of the pragmatic trials included in this meta-analysis this was a significant problem because the secondary outcomes were not adjusted to account for the differences in the baseline covariates.
Additionally the pragmatic trials may present challenges in the collection and interpretation of safety data. This is because adverse events are typically reported by participants themselves and are prone to reporting delays, inaccuracies, or coding variations. It is crucial to improve the accuracy and quality of the outcomes in these trials.
Results
While the definition of pragmatism may not require that all trials are 100% pragmatic, there are advantages of including pragmatic elements in clinical trials. These include:
Increasing sensitivity to real-world issues, reducing cost and size of the study, and enabling the trial results to be faster translated into actual clinical practice (by including patients who are routinely treated). But pragmatic trials can have their disadvantages. For instance, the right kind of heterogeneity can allow the trial to apply its findings to a variety of patients and settings; however the wrong type of heterogeneity could reduce assay sensitivity, and thus decrease the ability of a trial to detect minor treatment effects.
Several studies have attempted to classify pragmatic trials using different definitions and scoring methods. Schwartz and Lellouch1 created a framework to distinguish between explanation-based trials that support the clinical or physiological hypothesis and pragmatic trials that aid in the selection of appropriate treatments in clinical practice. The framework was comprised of nine domains assessed on a scale of 1-5 which indicated that 1 was more informative and 5 being more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment and 프라그마틱 정품확인 setting, delivery of intervention with flexibility, follow-up and primary analysis.
The initial PRECIS tool3 included similar domains and a scale of 1 to 5. Koppenaal and colleagues10 developed an adaptation to this assessment called the Pragmascope which was more user-friendly to use in systematic reviews. They found that pragmatic systematic reviews had a higher average score in most domains, but lower scores in the primary analysis domain.
The difference in the primary analysis domain could be due to the fact that most pragmatic trials analyse their data in the intention to treat manner however some explanation trials do not. The overall score was lower for systematic reviews that were pragmatic when the domains on organisation, flexible delivery, and follow-up were merged.
It is important to remember that a pragmatic study should not mean that a trial is of poor quality. In fact, there are a growing number of clinical trials which use the term 'pragmatic' either in their abstract or title (as defined by MEDLINE, but that is not precise nor sensitive). The use of these terms in abstracts and titles may suggest a greater awareness of the importance of pragmatism but it isn't clear if this is evident in the contents of the articles.
Conclusions
In recent times, pragmatic trials are increasing in popularity in research because the importance of real-world evidence is increasingly recognized. They are randomized clinical trials which compare real-world treatment options instead of experimental treatments in development, they have patients which are more closely resembling those treated in routine care, they use comparators which exist in routine practice (e.g., existing drugs) and rely on participant self-report of outcomes. This method is able to overcome the limitations of observational research for example, the biases associated with the reliance on volunteers, and the limited availability and the coding differences in national registry.
Other advantages of pragmatic trials include the ability to utilize existing data sources, and a greater probability of detecting significant changes than traditional trials. However, pragmatic trials may still have limitations that undermine their validity and generalizability. For example the participation rates in certain trials may be lower than anticipated due to the healthy-volunteer effect as well as financial incentives or competition for participants from other research studies (e.g. industry trials). The requirement to recruit participants in a timely fashion also reduces the size of the sample and impact of many pragmatic trials. Some pragmatic trials also lack controls to ensure that the observed differences aren't due to biases in the trial.
The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified 48 RCTs that self-described themselves as pragmatic and that were published until 2022. The PRECIS-2 tool was employed to assess the pragmatism of these trials. It covers areas like eligibility criteria, recruitment flexibility, adherence to intervention, and follow-up. They found that 14 of these trials scored pragmatic or highly sensible (i.e. scoring 5 or higher) in any one or more of these domains and that the majority of these were single-center.
Studies with high pragmatism scores are likely to have broader criteria for eligibility than traditional RCTs. They also include populations from many different hospitals. The authors claim that these characteristics can help make pragmatic trials more meaningful and applicable to everyday practice, 프라그마틱 슬롯 but they do not necessarily guarantee that a trial using a pragmatic approach is completely free of bias. The pragmatism characteristic is not a definite characteristic; a pragmatic test that doesn't have all the characteristics of an explicative study could still yield valid and useful outcomes.
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