Pragmatic Free Trial Meta
Pragmatic Free Trial Meta is a non-commercial open data platform and infrastructure that supports research on pragmatic trials. It gathers and distributes clean trial data, ratings, and evaluations using PRECIS-2. This allows for diverse meta-epidemiological studies to compare treatment effect estimates across trials of different levels of pragmatism.
Background
Pragmatic trials are increasingly acknowledged as providing evidence from the real world for clinical decision making. The term "pragmatic" however,
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Pragmatic97531.bloginwi.Com) is a word that is often used in contradiction and its definition and evaluation require clarification. Pragmatic trials should be designed to inform clinical practice and policy decisions, rather than confirm an hypothesis that is based on a clinical or physiological basis. A pragmatic trial should try to be as close as possible to the real-world clinical practice that include recruitment of participants, setting up, implementation and delivery of interventions, determination and analysis outcomes, and primary analysis. This is a major difference between explanatory trials, as described by Schwartz & Lellouch1, which are designed to test the hypothesis in a more thorough manner.
The trials that are truly pragmatic must be careful not to blind patients or the clinicians in order to lead to bias in estimates of the effects of treatment. The trials that are pragmatic should also try to recruit patients from a variety of health care settings to ensure that their findings can be applied to the real world.
Finally, pragmatic trials must be focused on outcomes that matter to patients, such as quality of life and functional recovery. This is particularly relevant in trials that require the use of invasive procedures or could have serious adverse impacts. The CRASH trial29 compared a 2-page report with an electronic monitoring system for hospitalized patients with chronic heart failure. The trial with a catheter, however was based on symptomatic catheter-related urinary tract infections as its primary outcome.
In addition to these aspects, pragmatic trials should minimize the procedures for conducting trials and data collection requirements to reduce costs. Furthermore pragmatic trials should strive to make their findings as relevant to actual clinical practice as possible by ensuring that their primary analysis is based on the intention-to-treat method (as described in CONSORT extensions for pragmatic trials).
Many RCTs that do not meet the criteria for pragmatism but have features that are in opposition to pragmatism, have been published in journals of various types and incorrectly labeled pragmatic. This could lead to false claims about pragmatism, and the use of the term should be standardised. The creation of the PRECIS-2 tool, which offers a standard objective assessment of practical features, is a good first step.
Methods
In a practical trial it is the intention to inform policy or clinical decisions by demonstrating how an intervention would be incorporated into real-world routine care. This is different from explanatory trials that test hypotheses regarding the causal-effect relationship in idealized situations. In this way, pragmatic trials may have a lower internal validity than explanatory studies and be more prone to biases in their design as well as analysis and conduct. Despite their limitations, pragmatic studies can be a valuable source of information to make decisions in the healthcare context.
The PRECIS-2 tool scores an RCT on 9 domains, with scores ranging from 1 to 5 (very pragmatic). In this study, the recruit-ment, organization, flexibility in delivery and follow-up domains received high scores, however the primary outcome and the method for missing data were not at the practical limit. This suggests that a trial could be designed with well-thought-out pragmatic features, without harming the quality of the trial.
However, it's difficult to judge how pragmatic a particular trial is, since the pragmatism score is not a binary quality; certain aspects of a study can be more pragmatic than others. Furthermore, logistical or protocol modifications made during an experiment can alter its score on pragmatism. Koppenaal and colleagues found that 36% of 89 pragmatic studies were placebo-controlled, or conducted prior to the licensing. They also found that the majority were single-center. This means that they are not quite as typical and can only be described as pragmatic if their sponsors are tolerant of the absence of blinding in these trials.
A typical feature of pragmatic research is that researchers try to make their findings more meaningful by studying subgroups of the trial sample. However, this often leads to unbalanced comparisons and lower statistical power, increasing the chance of not or incorrectly detecting differences in the primary outcome. In the case of the pragmatic trials included in this meta-analysis this was a major issue because the secondary outcomes were not adjusted to account for variations in the baseline covariates.
Furthermore, pragmatic studies can present challenges in the collection and
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Results
Although the definition of pragmatism does not require that all trials are 100% pragmatic, there are advantages to including pragmatic components in clinical trials. These include:
Incorporating routine patients, the results of the trial can be more quickly translated into clinical practice. However, pragmatic studies can also have drawbacks. For instance, the appropriate type of heterogeneity could help a trial to generalise its results to different settings and patients. However, the wrong type of heterogeneity may reduce the assay's sensitivity and therefore lessen the ability of a trial to detect small treatment effects.
A number of studies have attempted to classify pragmatic trials using various definitions and scoring systems. Schwartz and Lellouch1 developed a framework to distinguish between explanatory studies that support a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis, and pragmatic studies that inform the selection of appropriate therapies in real world clinical practice. Their framework comprised nine domains, each scoring on a scale ranging from 1 to 5 with 1 indicating more explanatory and 5 indicating more pragmatic. The domains covered recruitment of intervention, setting up, delivery of intervention, flexible adherence and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 included similar domains and an assessment scale ranging from 1 to 5. Koppenaal and colleagues10 created an adaptation of this assessment, called the Pragmascope which was more user-friendly to use for systematic reviews. They found that pragmatic reviews scored higher on average in all domains, but scored lower 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 don't. The overall score was lower for pragmatic systematic reviews when the domains of organisation, flexible delivery and follow-up were combined.
It is important to remember that a pragmatic trial doesn't necessarily mean a poor
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