Pragmatic Free Trial Meta
Pragmatic Free Trial Meta is a non-commercial, open data platform and infrastructure that facilitates research on pragmatic trials. It gathers and distributes clean trial data, ratings and evaluations using PRECIS-2. This allows for a variety of meta-epidemiological analyses to evaluate the effects of treatment across trials of different levels of pragmatism.
Background
Pragmatic trials provide evidence from the real world that can be used to make clinical decisions. The term "pragmatic", however,
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Trials that are truly practical should be careful not to blind patients or healthcare professionals in order to cause distortions in estimates of the effect of treatment. Practical trials should also aim to enroll patients from a wide range of health care settings to ensure that the results can be applied to the real world.
Additionally the focus of pragmatic trials should be on outcomes that are crucial to patients, such as quality of life or functional recovery. This is particularly important for trials involving the use of invasive procedures or potentially dangerous adverse events. The CRASH trial29 compared a 2-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 its primary outcome.
In addition to these aspects, pragmatic trials should minimize the procedures for conducting trials and requirements for data collection to cut costs and time commitments. Furthermore pragmatic trials should try to make their results as applicable to real-world clinical practice as they can by making sure that their primary method of analysis is based on the intention-to-treat method (as described in CONSORT extensions for pragmatic trials).
Many RCTs that don't meet the criteria for pragmatism, but have features that are in opposition to pragmatism, have been published in journals of different kinds and incorrectly labeled pragmatic. This can lead to false claims of pragmaticity, and the usage of the term should be standardized. The creation of a PRECIS-2 tool that can provide an objective, standardized evaluation of the pragmatic characteristics is the first step.
Methods
In a pragmatic study it is the intention to inform clinical or policy decisions by showing how an intervention could be implemented into routine care. Explanatory trials test hypotheses about the cause-effect relation within idealized environments. Consequently, pragmatic trials may be less reliable than explanatory trials and
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The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains, ranging between 1 and 5 (very pragmatist). In this study the areas of recruitment, organization and flexibility in delivery, flexible adherence, and follow-up scored high. However, the principal outcome and the method of missing data was scored below the pragmatic limit. This indicates that a trial can be designed with good pragmatic features, without damaging the quality.
It is hard to determine the degree of pragmatism in a particular study because pragmatism is not a possess a specific characteristic. Certain aspects of a study can be more pragmatic than other. A trial's pragmatism could be affected by modifications to the protocol or the logistics during the trial. In addition 36% of the 89 pragmatic trials identified by Koppenaal and co. were placebo-controlled or conducted before licensing and most were single-center. They are not close to the usual practice, and can only be considered pragmatic if their sponsors agree that the trials aren't blinded.
Another common aspect of pragmatic trials is that the researchers try to make their results more relevant by analyzing subgroups of the sample. However, this often leads to unbalanced comparisons and lower statistical power, increasing the chance of not or misinterpreting the results of the primary outcome. This was a problem during the meta-analysis of pragmatic trials due to the fact that secondary outcomes were not corrected for covariates that differed at baseline.
In addition the pragmatic trials may be a challenge in the gathering and interpretation of safety data. This is due to the fact that adverse events are usually self-reported and prone to reporting errors, delays,
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Results
While the definition of pragmatism does not require that clinical trials be 100% pragmatist There are advantages when incorporating pragmatic components into trials. These include:
By incorporating routine patients, the trial results can be translated more quickly into clinical practice. However, pragmatic trials can also have drawbacks. For example, the right type of heterogeneity can help a study to generalize its findings to a variety of patients and settings; however the wrong type of heterogeneity may reduce the assay's sensitivity and therefore lessen the ability of a study to detect small treatment effects.
A variety of studies have attempted to categorize pragmatic trials using various definitions and scoring methods. Schwartz and Lellouch1 created a framework to discern between explanation-based studies that support a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic studies that inform the selection of appropriate treatments in clinical practice. The framework was comprised of nine domains that were scored on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 indicating more explanatory and 5 indicating more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment of intervention, setting up, delivery of intervention, flex adhering to the program and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 was built on the same scale and domains. Koppenaal and colleagues10 created an adaptation of the assessment,
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The difference in the primary analysis domain can be explained by the way that most pragmatic trials approach data. Some explanatory trials, however, do not. The overall score was lower for pragmatic systematic reviews when the domains of organisation, flexible delivery, and follow-up were merged.
It is important to remember that the term "pragmatic trial" does not necessarily mean a low quality trial, and there is an increasing rate of clinical trials (as defined by MEDLINE search, but this is not sensitive nor specific) that employ the term 'pragmatic' in their abstract or title. These terms could indicate an increased understanding of pragmatism in abstracts and titles, but it isn't clear whether this is evident in content.