Pragmatic Free Trial Meta
Pragmatic Free Trial Meta is a 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,
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Background
Pragmatic trials are increasingly acknowledged as providing evidence from the real world for clinical decision making. However, the usage of the term "pragmatic" is inconsistent and its definition and evaluation requires further clarification. The purpose of pragmatic trials is to guide clinical practices and policy decisions, not to confirm a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic trial should try to be as close as possible to real-world clinical practices, including recruiting participants, setting up, delivery and execution of interventions, determining and analysis results, as well as primary analyses. This is a key distinction from explanation trials (as described by Schwartz and Lellouch1) which are designed to provide more complete confirmation of the hypothesis.
Truly pragmatic trials should not conceal participants or the clinicians. This can lead to an overestimation of the effects of treatment. The trials that are pragmatic should also try to attract patients from a wide range of health care settings to ensure that their findings can be applied to the real world.
Finally 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 in trials that require surgical procedures that are invasive or may have harmful adverse impacts. The CRASH trial29, for example was focused on functional outcomes to compare a 2-page case-report with an electronic system for
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In addition to these features the pragmatic trial should also reduce the trial procedures and requirements for data collection to reduce costs. Furthermore, pragmatic trials should seek to make their findings as relevant to actual clinical practice as possible by making sure that their primary method of analysis follows the intention-to treat approach (as described in CONSORT extensions for pragmatic trials).
Despite these guidelines however, a large number of RCTs with features that challenge pragmatism have been incorrectly self-labeled pragmatic and published in journals of all kinds. This could lead to false claims of pragmatism and the term's use should be standardized. The creation of the PRECIS-2 tool, which offers an objective standard for assessing practical features is a good initial step.
Methods
In a pragmatic trial it is the intention to inform clinical or policy decisions by demonstrating how the intervention can be implemented into routine care. This is distinct from explanation trials, which test hypotheses about the cause-effect connection in idealized settings. Therefore, pragmatic trials could be less reliable than explanatory trials and may be more susceptible to bias in their design, conduct, and analysis. Despite these limitations, 프라그마틱 사이트 (
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The PRECIS-2 tool scores an RCT on 9 domains, with scores ranging between 1 and 5 (very pragmatist). In this study, the recruitment, organization, flexibility in delivery, flexible adherence and follow-up domains were awarded high scores, however, the primary outcome and the method of missing data were below the practical limit. This suggests that it is possible to design a trial that has good pragmatic features without compromising the quality of its outcomes.
It is hard to determine the amount of pragmatism that is present in a trial since pragmatism doesn't have a binary characteristic. Certain aspects of a study can be more pragmatic than others. Furthermore, logistical or protocol modifications during the course of an experiment can alter its score in pragmatism. In addition 36% of the 89 pragmatic trials discovered by Koppenaal et al were placebo-controlled or conducted before licensing and most were single-center. This means that they are not as common and can only be described as pragmatic in the event that their sponsors are supportive of the lack of blinding in such trials.
A typical feature of pragmatic studies is that researchers attempt to make their findings more meaningful by analyzing subgroups of the trial sample. However, this can lead to unbalanced comparisons 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 studies included in this meta-analysis,
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Additionally, studies that are pragmatic may pose challenges to collection and interpretation of safety data. This is due to the fact that adverse events tend to be self-reported and are susceptible to errors, delays or coding errors. It is crucial to increase the accuracy and quality of outcomes in these trials.
Results
While the definition of pragmatism may not mean that trials must be 100% pragmatic, there are advantages to including pragmatic components in clinical trials. These include:
Increased sensitivity to real-world issues as well as reducing the size of studies and their costs,
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Several studies have attempted to categorize pragmatic trials using various definitions and scoring methods. Schwartz and Lellouch1 created a framework to distinguish between explanation-based trials that support the clinical or physiological hypothesis as well as pragmatic trials that help in the selection of appropriate therapies in clinical practice. The framework consisted of nine domains that were assessed on a scale of 1-5 which indicated that 1 was more informative and 5 was more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment and setting up, the delivery of intervention, flexible adherence and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 included similar domains and scales from 1 to 5. Koppenaal et al10 developed an adaptation of the assessment, called the Pragmascope which was more user-friendly to use for systematic reviews. They found that pragmatic systematic reviews had higher average scores in the majority of domains, with lower scores in the primary analysis domain.
The difference in the primary analysis domains could be due to the way in which most pragmatic trials analyse data. Certain explanatory trials however 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 crucial to keep in mind that a pragmatic study should not necessarily mean a low-quality study.