Pragmatic Free Trial Meta
Pragmatic Free Trial Meta is a free and non-commercial open data platform and infrastructure that facilitates research on pragmatic trials. It is a platform that collects and shares clean trial data and ratings using PRECIS-2 permitting multiple and varied meta-epidemiological studies to evaluate the effect of treatment on trials with different levels of pragmatism as well as other design features.
Background
Pragmatic trials are increasingly recognized as providing real-world evidence for clinical decision-making. The term "pragmatic", however, is used inconsistently and its definition and assessment require further clarification. The purpose of pragmatic trials is to guide clinical practices and policy decisions rather than prove a physiological or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic study should strive to be as close as possible to actual clinical practices that include recruiting participants, setting, designing, delivery and implementation of interventions, determining and analysis outcomes, and primary analyses. This is a major difference between explanatory trials, as defined by Schwartz & Lellouch1, which are designed to prove a hypothesis in a more thorough manner.
Truly pragmatic trials should not conceal participants or clinicians. This can result in a bias in the estimates of the effects of treatment. Pragmatic trials should also seek to attract patients from a wide range of health care settings to ensure that their findings can be applied to the real world.
Finally, pragmatic trials should focus on outcomes that are crucial to patients, such as quality of life or functional recovery. This is particularly relevant when it comes to trials that involve the use of invasive procedures or potential dangerous adverse events. The CRASH trial29 compared a two-page report with an electronic monitoring system for hospitalized patients with chronic cardiac failure. The catheter trial28, however was based on symptomatic catheter-related urinary tract infections as its primary outcome.
In addition to these aspects, pragmatic trials should minimize trial procedures and data-collection requirements to reduce costs and time commitments. Finally, pragmatic trials should seek to make their results as applicable to real-world clinical practice as is possible by making sure that their primary analysis follows the intention-to treat approach (as described in CONSORT extensions for pragmatic trials).
Many RCTs that don't meet the criteria for
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Methods
In a practical trial it is the intention to inform policy or clinical decisions by demonstrating how the intervention can be incorporated into real-world routine care. Explanatory trials test hypotheses about the causal-effect relationship in idealized settings. Consequently, pragmatic trials may be less reliable than explanatory trials and may be more susceptible to bias in their design, conduct, and analysis. Despite their limitations, pragmatic studies can be a valuable source of information for decision-making within the context of healthcare.
The PRECIS-2 tool measures the degree of pragmatism in an RCT by assessing it across 9 domains, ranging from 1 (very explanatory) to 5 (very pragmatic). In this study, the areas of recruitment, organisation and flexibility in delivery, flexibility in adherence, and follow-up scored high. However, the main outcome and method of missing data were scored below the practical limit. This suggests that a trial could be designed with effective pragmatic features,
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It is, however, difficult to determine how practical a particular trial is since pragmatism is not a binary attribute; some aspects of a trial can be more pragmatic than others. The pragmatism of a trial can be affected by modifications to the protocol or the logistics during the trial. In addition 36% of the 89 pragmatic trials identified by Koppenaal et al were placebo-controlled, or conducted prior to licensing and most were single-center. Therefore, they aren't very close to usual practice and can only be described as pragmatic when their sponsors are accepting of the lack of blinding in such trials.
Furthermore, a common feature of pragmatic trials is that researchers try to make their results more relevant by analyzing subgroups of the trial. This can lead to unbalanced analyses with lower statistical power. This increases the chance of missing or misdetecting differences in the primary outcomes. In the case of the pragmatic studies included in this meta-analysis, this was a significant problem because the secondary outcomes weren't adjusted for differences in baseline covariates.
Furthermore, pragmatic studies may pose challenges to collection and interpretation safety data. This is due to the fact that adverse events are generally reported by the participants themselves and are prone to delays in reporting, inaccuracies, or coding variations. It is crucial to increase the accuracy and quality of the outcomes in these trials.
Results
While the definition of pragmatism doesn't require that all clinical trials be 100% pragmatist there are benefits to including pragmatic components in trials. These include:
By incorporating routine patients, the results of the trial are more easily translated into clinical practice. However, pragmatic trials may also have drawbacks. The right type of heterogeneity, for example could help a study expand its findings to different settings or patients. However the wrong kind of heterogeneity can reduce the assay sensitivity, and therefore lessen the power of a trial to detect small treatment effects.
A variety of studies have attempted to classify pragmatic trials using various definitions and scoring systems. Schwartz and Lellouch1 developed a framework to discern between explanation-based studies that confirm a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic studies that guide the choice for appropriate therapies in real world clinical practice. The framework was comprised of nine domains that were scored on a 1-5 scale, with 1 being more informative and 5 was more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment, setting up, delivery of intervention, flexible compliance and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 featured similar domains and a scale of 1 to 5. Koppenaal et al10 devised an adaptation of this assessment called the Pragmascope which was more user-friendly to use in systematic reviews. They found that pragmatic systematic reviews had higher average score in most domains but lower scores in the primary analysis domain.
This difference in the main analysis domain could be explained by the fact that most pragmatic trials analyse their data in the intention to treat method however some explanation trials do not. The overall score for systematic reviews that were pragmatic was lower when the areas of organization, flexible delivery, and follow-up were merged.
It is important to remember that the term "pragmatic trial" does not necessarily mean a poor quality trial, and indeed there is an increasing rate of clinical trials (as defined by MEDLINE search, however this is neither specific nor
프라그마틱 게임 sensitive) that employ the term 'pragmatic' in their title or abstract.