Pragmatic Free Trial Meta
Pragmatic Free Trail Meta is an open data platform that facilitates research into pragmatic trials. It collects and shares cleaned trial data and ratings using PRECIS-2 allowing for multiple and diverse meta-epidemiological studies to examine the effects of treatment across trials that have different levels of pragmatism, as well as other design features.
Background
Pragmatic studies provide real-world evidence that can be used to make clinical decisions. The term "pragmatic" however, is not used in a consistent manner and its definition and evaluation require clarification. Pragmatic trials are intended to inform clinical practices and policy decisions rather than verify a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic trial should also aim to be as similar to real-world clinical practice as possible, such as the selection of participants, setting and design, the delivery and execution of the intervention, determination and
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Trials that are truly pragmatic must avoid attempting to blind participants or the clinicians, as this may result in distortions in estimates of treatment effects. Pragmatic trials should also seek to attract patients from a variety of health care settings to ensure that the results can be compared to the real world.
Furthermore the focus of pragmatic trials should be on outcomes that are important for patients, such as quality of life or functional recovery. This is especially important for trials that involve surgical procedures that are invasive or
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In addition to these features pragmatic trials should reduce trial procedures and
프라그마틱 정품확인 data-collection requirements to reduce costs and time commitments. Finally pragmatic trials should try to make their findings as applicable to real-world 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).
Despite these guidelines however, a large number of RCTs with features that defy the concept of pragmatism have been mislabeled as pragmatic and published in journals of all types. This can lead to false claims of pragmatism and the usage of the term must be standardized. The development of a PRECIS-2 tool that can provide a standardized objective assessment of pragmatic features is the first step.
Methods
In a pragmatic research study, the goal is to inform clinical or policy decisions by demonstrating how an intervention could be integrated into routine treatment in real-world situations. Explanatory trials test hypotheses about the causal-effect relationship in idealized settings. In this way, pragmatic trials may have less internal validity than studies that explain and be more prone to biases in their design analysis, conduct, and design. Despite their limitations, pragmatic studies can provide valuable data for making decisions within the healthcare context.
The PRECIS-2 tool assesses the level of pragmatism that is present in an RCT by assessing it on 9 domains that range from 1 (very explicit) to 5 (very pragmatic). In this study the areas of recruitment, organization and flexibility in delivery, flexible adherence and follow-up received high scores. However, the primary outcome and
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It is difficult to determine the level of pragmatism in a particular trial since pragmatism doesn't have a binary attribute. Certain aspects of a study may be more pragmatic than others. The pragmatism of a trial can be affected by changes to the protocol or the logistics during the trial. Additionally, 36% of the 89 pragmatic trials discovered by Koppenaal and colleagues were placebo-controlled, or conducted prior to licensing and most were single-center. This means that they are not quite as typical and
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A common feature of pragmatic research is that researchers attempt to make their findings more meaningful by studying subgroups of the trial sample. This can lead to unbalanced comparisons with a lower statistical power, increasing the likelihood of missing or incorrectly detecting differences in the primary outcome. In the instance of the pragmatic trials included in this meta-analysis, this was a serious issue because the secondary outcomes were not adjusted for the differences in baseline covariates.
Furthermore, pragmatic studies can present challenges in the collection and interpretation of safety data. This is due to the fact that adverse events are usually self-reported and prone to reporting errors, delays or coding errors. It is crucial to improve the quality and accuracy of the outcomes in these trials.
Results
Although the definition of pragmatism does not require that all trials be 100 percent pragmatic, there are benefits to incorporating pragmatic components into clinical trials. These include:
By incorporating routine patients, the results of trials are more easily translated into clinical practice. However, pragmatic trials have disadvantages. For example, the right type of heterogeneity can help a trial to generalise its results to many different patients and settings; however, the wrong type of heterogeneity could reduce assay sensitivity and therefore lessen the ability of a study to detect minor treatment effects.
Numerous studies have attempted to categorize pragmatic trials with a variety of definitions and scoring systems. Schwartz and Lellouch1 have developed a framework that can distinguish between explanatory studies that prove the physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic studies that guide the selection of appropriate treatments in the real-world clinical practice. The framework consisted of nine domains assessed on a scale of 1-5, with 1 being more informative and 5 was more practical. The domains were recruitment, setting, intervention delivery with flexibility, follow-up and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 featured similar domains and a scale of 1 to 5. Koppenaal et al10 developed an adaptation of the assessment, dubbed the Pragmascope that was simpler to use for systematic reviews. They found that pragmatic systematic reviews had a higher average scores across all domains, but lower scores in the primary analysis domain.
This distinction in the primary analysis domains can be due to the way in which most pragmatic trials approach data. Some explanatory trials, however do not. The overall score for systematic reviews that were pragmatic was lower when the areas of organisation, flexible delivery and following-up were combined.
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 it is neither specific nor sensitive) that employ the term "pragmatic" in their title or abstract.
