Pragmatic Free Trial Meta
Pragmatic Free Trail Meta is an open data platform that enables research into pragmatic trials. It is a platform that collects and shares clean trial data and ratings using PRECIS-2 which allows for multiple and varied meta-epidemiological studies to evaluate the effect of treatment on trials that employ different levels of pragmatism as well as other design features.
Background
Pragmatic trials provide real-world evidence that can be used to make clinical decisions. However, the usage of the term "pragmatic" is not uniform and its definition and evaluation requires further clarification. Pragmatic trials are intended to guide the practice of clinical medicine and policy decisions rather than prove a physiological or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic study should strive to be as close to actual clinical practice as is possible, including its selection of participants,
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The trials that are truly practical should avoid attempting to blind participants or the clinicians, as this may lead to bias in estimates of the effect of treatment. The trials that are pragmatic should also try to attract patients from a variety of health care settings to ensure that the results can be compared to the real world.
Additionally, clinical trials should be focused on outcomes that matter to patients, such as quality of life and functional recovery. This is particularly relevant for trials involving invasive procedures or those with potentially serious adverse events. The CRASH trial29 compared a two-page report with an electronic monitoring system for hospitalized patients suffering from chronic cardiac failure. The trial with a catheter, on the other hand was based on symptomatic catheter-related urinary tract infection as the primary outcome.
In addition to these characteristics the pragmatic trial should also reduce the procedures for conducting trials and data collection requirements in order to reduce costs. Furthermore pragmatic trials should strive to make their findings as applicable to 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).
Despite these guidelines, many RCTs with features that challenge pragmatism have been incorrectly self-labeled pragmatic and published in journals of all kinds. This can result in misleading claims of pragmaticity and the usage of the term needs to be standardized. The creation of the PRECIS-2 tool, which offers a standard objective assessment of pragmatic characteristics, is a good first step.
Methods
In a pragmatic study 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 concerning the cause-effect relation within idealized conditions. In this way, pragmatic trials may have less internal validity than explanatory studies and be more prone to biases in their design, analysis, and conduct. Despite their limitations, pragmatic research can be a valuable source of information for decision-making within the context of healthcare.
The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains, ranging between 1 and 5 (very pragmatist). In this study, the recruitment, organisation, flexibility: delivery, flexible adherence and follow-up domains were awarded high scores, however the primary outcome and
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It is, however, difficult to assess how practical a particular trial really is because pragmaticity is not a definite attribute; some aspects of a study can be more pragmatic than others. A trial's pragmatism could be affected by modifications to the protocol or the logistics during the trial. Additionally 36% of 89 pragmatic trials discovered by Koppenaal and co. were placebo-controlled or conducted before licensing and most were single-center. They are not in line with the norm and can only be called pragmatic if the sponsors agree that such trials aren't blinded.
Furthermore, a common feature of pragmatic trials is that the researchers attempt to make their findings more meaningful by analysing subgroups of the trial. This can result in unbalanced analyses with lower statistical power. This increases the chance of omitting or
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In addition the pragmatic trials may be a challenge in the gathering and interpretation of safety data. This is because adverse events are typically reported by participants themselves and prone to reporting delays, inaccuracies or coding errors. It is important to improve the accuracy and quality of the results in these trials.
Results
Although the definition of pragmatism does not require that all trials be 100 100% pragmatic, there are some advantages to including pragmatic components in clinical trials. These include:
Incorporating routine patients, the trial results can be translated more quickly into clinical practice. However, pragmatic trials may also have drawbacks. The right amount of heterogeneity, for example could help a study expand its findings to different patients or settings. However, the wrong type can decrease the sensitivity of the test and, consequently, decrease the ability of a study to detect minor treatment effects.
Several studies have attempted to classify pragmatic trials using a variety of definitions and scoring methods. Schwartz and Lellouch1 created a framework for distinguishing between research studies that prove the clinical or physiological hypothesis as well as pragmatic trials that aid in the selection of appropriate treatments in real-world clinical practice. The framework consisted of nine domains that were scored on a 1-5 scale with 1 being more informative and 5 being more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment setting, setting, intervention delivery, flexible adherence, follow-up and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 was built on the same scale and domains. Koppenaal et al10 developed an adaptation of the assessment, dubbed the Pragmascope that was simpler to use for systematic reviews. They discovered that pragmatic systematic reviews had higher average scores across all domains, but lower scores in the primary analysis domain.
The difference in the primary analysis domains can be explained by the way that most pragmatic trials approach data. Certain explanatory trials however, do not. The overall score was lower for pragmatic systematic reviews when the domains of the organization, flexibility of delivery and follow-up were combined.
It is important to remember that a pragmatic trial does not necessarily mean a low quality trial, and indeed there is a growing number of clinical trials (as defined by MEDLINE search, however this is not sensitive nor specific) that use the term 'pragmatic' in their abstracts or titles. These terms could indicate a greater awareness of pragmatism within titles and abstracts, but it isn't clear whether this is reflected in the content.