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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 a variety of meta-epidemiological analyses that compare treatment effect estimates across trials of different levels of pragmatism.
Background
Pragmatic studies provide real-world evidence that can be used to make clinical decisions. The term "pragmatic", however, is a word that is often used in contradiction and its definition and assessment need further clarification. The purpose of pragmatic trials is to guide the practice of clinical medicine and policy decisions rather than prove a physiological or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic trial should aim to be as close as is possible to the real-world clinical practice which include the recruitment of participants, setting up, delivery and implementation of interventions, determining and analysis outcomes, and primary analyses. This is a major difference between explanatory trials as defined by Schwartz & Lellouch1, which are designed to confirm the hypothesis in a more thorough way.
The trials that are truly pragmatic must not attempt to blind participants or the clinicians, as this may result in bias in the estimation 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 are generalizable to the real world.
Finally studies that are pragmatic should focus on outcomes that are crucial to patients, such as quality of life or functional recovery. This is particularly important in trials that require invasive procedures or have potentially harmful adverse impacts. The CRASH trial29 compared a two-page report with an electronic monitoring system for patients in hospitals suffering from chronic cardiac failure. The trial with a catheter, however, used symptomatic catheter associated urinary tract infection as the primary outcome.
In addition to these features pragmatic trials should reduce the procedures for conducting trials and requirements for data collection to reduce costs and time commitments. Finaly the aim of pragmatic trials is to make their results as relevant to real-world clinical practices as possible. This can be achieved by ensuring that their analysis is based on an intention-to treat method (as described within CONSORT extensions).
Many RCTs which do not meet the criteria for pragmatism, but have features that are contrary to pragmatism have been published in journals of different kinds and incorrectly labeled pragmatic. This could lead to misleading claims of pragmatism and the use of the term needs to be standardized. The development of a PRECIS-2 tool that offers an objective and standardized evaluation of the pragmatic characteristics is a first step.
Methods
In a pragmatic 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. This differs from explanation trials that test hypotheses about the cause-effect connection in idealized situations. In this way, pragmatic trials could have less internal validity than studies that explain and are more susceptible to biases in their design as well as analysis and conduct. Despite these limitations, pragmatic trials can provide valuable information to decision-making in healthcare.
The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains, ranging between 1 and 5 (very pragmatist). In this study, the domains of recruitment, organisation as well as flexibility in delivery flexibility in adherence, and follow-up received high scores. However, the principal outcome and method of missing data was scored below the pragmatic limit. This suggests that it is possible to design a trial using high-quality pragmatic features, without damaging the quality of its results.
However, it's difficult to judge the degree of pragmatism a trial really is because the pragmatism score is not a binary attribute; some aspects of a trial may be more pragmatic than others. A trial's pragmatism could be affected by changes to the protocol or the logistics during the trial. Additionally 36% of the 89 pragmatic trials discovered by Koppenaal et al were placebo-controlled or conducted before licensing and most were single-center. They aren't in line with the standard practice and are only called pragmatic if their sponsors agree that these trials aren't blinded.
Another common aspect of pragmatic trials is that researchers attempt to make their findings more relevant by analyzing subgroups of the trial sample. However, this often leads to unbalanced comparisons and lower statistical power, increasing the likelihood of missing or misinterpreting the results of the primary outcome. In the case of the pragmatic trials that were included in this meta-analysis this was a significant problem because the secondary outcomes were not adjusted to account for variations in baseline covariates.
Additionally, studies that are pragmatic may pose challenges to collection and interpretation of safety data. This is because adverse events are usually self-reported and prone to delays in reporting, inaccuracies or coding errors. It is therefore important to improve the quality of outcomes for these trials, and ideally by using national registries instead of relying on participants to report adverse events on a trial's own database.
Results
While the definition of pragmatism may not require that all clinical trials are 100% pragmatic, there are benefits when incorporating pragmatic components into trials. These include:
By incorporating routine patients, the trial results are more easily translated into clinical practice. However, pragmatic trials can also have disadvantages. For example, the right kind of heterogeneity can allow the trial to apply its results to different patients and settings; however the wrong type of heterogeneity could reduce assay sensitivity, and thus decrease the ability of a study to detect even minor effects of treatment.
A variety of studies have attempted to classify pragmatic trials using a variety of definitions and scoring methods. Schwartz and Lellouch1 developed a framework to distinguish between explanatory studies that prove a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic studies that help inform the selection of appropriate treatments in clinical practice. The framework was composed of nine domains scored on a 1-5 scale which indicated that 1 was more lucid while 5 being more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment, setting up, delivery of intervention, flexible adherence and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 was based on a similar scale and domains. Koppenaal et al10 devised an adaptation of this assessment called the Pragmascope that was simpler to use in systematic reviews. They discovered that pragmatic reviews scored higher on average in all domains, but scored lower in the primary analysis domain.
This distinction in the primary analysis domains could be explained by the way that most pragmatic trials analyse data. Certain explanatory trials however do not. The overall score for systematic reviews that were pragmatic was lower when the areas of management, flexible delivery and following-up were combined.
It is important to understand that a pragmatic trial does not necessarily mean a low-quality trial, and in fact there is a growing number of clinical trials (as defined by MEDLINE search, however it is neither specific nor 프라그마틱 불법 정품확인방법 [jisuzm.tv explained in a blog post] sensitive) that use the term "pragmatic" in their abstract or title. These terms may indicate a greater understanding of pragmatism in abstracts and titles, however it isn't clear whether this is evident in content.
Conclusions
As the importance of evidence from the real world becomes more popular and pragmatic trials have gained momentum in research. They are clinical trials that are randomized that evaluate real-world alternatives to care instead of experimental treatments in development, they include populations of patients which are more closely resembling the ones who are treated in routine care, they use comparators which exist in routine practice (e.g. existing drugs), and they rely on participant self-report of outcomes. This approach can overcome the limitations of observational research, for example, the biases associated with the reliance on volunteers, and the limited availability and coding variations in national registries.
Pragmatic trials also have advantages, like the ability to draw on existing data sources and a greater chance of detecting significant differences from traditional trials. However, these tests could be prone to limitations that undermine their reliability and generalizability. For example the participation rates in certain trials may be lower than anticipated due to the healthy-volunteer effect and financial incentives or competition for participants from other research studies (e.g., industry trials). The need to recruit individuals quickly reduces the size of the sample and the impact of many practical trials. Practical trials aren't always equipped with controls to ensure that the observed differences aren't caused by biases that occur during the trial.
The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified 48 RCTs that self-described themselves as pragmatist and published from 2022. The PRECIS-2 tool was used to assess the pragmatism of these trials. It covers domains such as eligibility criteria as well as recruitment flexibility, adherence to intervention, 프라그마틱 슬롯무료 슬롯체험 (www.Google.pt) and follow-up. They discovered that 14 of these trials scored as highly or pragmatic pragmatic (i.e. scoring 5 or more) in any one or more of these domains and that the majority of them were single-center.
Trials with a high pragmatism score tend to have broader eligibility criteria than traditional RCTs which have very specific criteria that are unlikely to be present in the clinical environment, and they contain patients from a broad variety of hospitals. The authors claim that these traits can make the pragmatic trials more relevant and useful for daily practice, but they do not necessarily guarantee that a trial using a pragmatic approach is free of bias. The pragmatism is not a definite characteristic and a test that does not possess all the characteristics of an explanatory study could still yield reliable and beneficial results.
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 a variety of meta-epidemiological analyses that compare treatment effect estimates across trials of different levels of pragmatism.
Background
Pragmatic studies provide real-world evidence that can be used to make clinical decisions. The term "pragmatic", however, is a word that is often used in contradiction and its definition and assessment need further clarification. The purpose of pragmatic trials is to guide the practice of clinical medicine and policy decisions rather than prove a physiological or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic trial should aim to be as close as is possible to the real-world clinical practice which include the recruitment of participants, setting up, delivery and implementation of interventions, determining and analysis outcomes, and primary analyses. This is a major difference between explanatory trials as defined by Schwartz & Lellouch1, which are designed to confirm the hypothesis in a more thorough way.
The trials that are truly pragmatic must not attempt to blind participants or the clinicians, as this may result in bias in the estimation 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 are generalizable to the real world.
Finally studies that are pragmatic should focus on outcomes that are crucial to patients, such as quality of life or functional recovery. This is particularly important in trials that require invasive procedures or have potentially harmful adverse impacts. The CRASH trial29 compared a two-page report with an electronic monitoring system for patients in hospitals suffering from chronic cardiac failure. The trial with a catheter, however, used symptomatic catheter associated urinary tract infection as the primary outcome.
In addition to these features pragmatic trials should reduce the procedures for conducting trials and requirements for data collection to reduce costs and time commitments. Finaly the aim of pragmatic trials is to make their results as relevant to real-world clinical practices as possible. This can be achieved by ensuring that their analysis is based on an intention-to treat method (as described within CONSORT extensions).
Many RCTs which do not meet the criteria for pragmatism, but have features that are contrary to pragmatism have been published in journals of different kinds and incorrectly labeled pragmatic. This could lead to misleading claims of pragmatism and the use of the term needs to be standardized. The development of a PRECIS-2 tool that offers an objective and standardized evaluation of the pragmatic characteristics is a first step.
Methods
In a pragmatic 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. This differs from explanation trials that test hypotheses about the cause-effect connection in idealized situations. In this way, pragmatic trials could have less internal validity than studies that explain and are more susceptible to biases in their design as well as analysis and conduct. Despite these limitations, pragmatic trials can provide valuable information to decision-making in healthcare.
The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains, ranging between 1 and 5 (very pragmatist). In this study, the domains of recruitment, organisation as well as flexibility in delivery flexibility in adherence, and follow-up received high scores. However, the principal outcome and method of missing data was scored below the pragmatic limit. This suggests that it is possible to design a trial using high-quality pragmatic features, without damaging the quality of its results.
However, it's difficult to judge the degree of pragmatism a trial really is because the pragmatism score is not a binary attribute; some aspects of a trial may be more pragmatic than others. A trial's pragmatism could be affected by changes to the protocol or the logistics during the trial. Additionally 36% of the 89 pragmatic trials discovered by Koppenaal et al were placebo-controlled or conducted before licensing and most were single-center. They aren't in line with the standard practice and are only called pragmatic if their sponsors agree that these trials aren't blinded.
Another common aspect of pragmatic trials is that researchers attempt to make their findings more relevant by analyzing subgroups of the trial sample. However, this often leads to unbalanced comparisons and lower statistical power, increasing the likelihood of missing or misinterpreting the results of the primary outcome. In the case of the pragmatic trials that were included in this meta-analysis this was a significant problem because the secondary outcomes were not adjusted to account for variations in baseline covariates.
Additionally, studies that are pragmatic may pose challenges to collection and interpretation of safety data. This is because adverse events are usually self-reported and prone to delays in reporting, inaccuracies or coding errors. It is therefore important to improve the quality of outcomes for these trials, and ideally by using national registries instead of relying on participants to report adverse events on a trial's own database.
Results
While the definition of pragmatism may not require that all clinical trials are 100% pragmatic, there are benefits when incorporating pragmatic components into trials. These include:
By incorporating routine patients, the trial results are more easily translated into clinical practice. However, pragmatic trials can also have disadvantages. For example, the right kind of heterogeneity can allow the trial to apply its results to different patients and settings; however the wrong type of heterogeneity could reduce assay sensitivity, and thus decrease the ability of a study to detect even minor effects of treatment.
A variety of studies have attempted to classify pragmatic trials using a variety of definitions and scoring methods. Schwartz and Lellouch1 developed a framework to distinguish between explanatory studies that prove a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic studies that help inform the selection of appropriate treatments in clinical practice. The framework was composed of nine domains scored on a 1-5 scale which indicated that 1 was more lucid while 5 being more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment, setting up, delivery of intervention, flexible adherence and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 was based on a similar scale and domains. Koppenaal et al10 devised an adaptation of this assessment called the Pragmascope that was simpler to use in systematic reviews. They discovered that pragmatic reviews scored higher on average in all domains, but scored lower in the primary analysis domain.
This distinction in the primary analysis domains could be explained by the way that most pragmatic trials analyse data. Certain explanatory trials however do not. The overall score for systematic reviews that were pragmatic was lower when the areas of management, flexible delivery and following-up were combined.
It is important to understand that a pragmatic trial does not necessarily mean a low-quality trial, and in fact there is a growing number of clinical trials (as defined by MEDLINE search, however it is neither specific nor 프라그마틱 불법 정품확인방법 [jisuzm.tv explained in a blog post] sensitive) that use the term "pragmatic" in their abstract or title. These terms may indicate a greater understanding of pragmatism in abstracts and titles, however it isn't clear whether this is evident in content.
Conclusions
As the importance of evidence from the real world becomes more popular and pragmatic trials have gained momentum in research. They are clinical trials that are randomized that evaluate real-world alternatives to care instead of experimental treatments in development, they include populations of patients which are more closely resembling the ones who are treated in routine care, they use comparators which exist in routine practice (e.g. existing drugs), and they rely on participant self-report of outcomes. This approach can overcome the limitations of observational research, for example, the biases associated with the reliance on volunteers, and the limited availability and coding variations in national registries.
Pragmatic trials also have advantages, like the ability to draw on existing data sources and a greater chance of detecting significant differences from traditional trials. However, these tests could be prone to limitations that undermine their reliability and generalizability. For example the participation rates in certain trials may be lower than anticipated due to the healthy-volunteer effect and financial incentives or competition for participants from other research studies (e.g., industry trials). The need to recruit individuals quickly reduces the size of the sample and the impact of many practical trials. Practical trials aren't always equipped with controls to ensure that the observed differences aren't caused by biases that occur during the trial.
The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified 48 RCTs that self-described themselves as pragmatist and published from 2022. The PRECIS-2 tool was used to assess the pragmatism of these trials. It covers domains such as eligibility criteria as well as recruitment flexibility, adherence to intervention, 프라그마틱 슬롯무료 슬롯체험 (www.Google.pt) and follow-up. They discovered that 14 of these trials scored as highly or pragmatic pragmatic (i.e. scoring 5 or more) in any one or more of these domains and that the majority of them were single-center.
Trials with a high pragmatism score tend to have broader eligibility criteria than traditional RCTs which have very specific criteria that are unlikely to be present in the clinical environment, and they contain patients from a broad variety of hospitals. The authors claim that these traits can make the pragmatic trials more relevant and useful for daily practice, but they do not necessarily guarantee that a trial using a pragmatic approach is free of bias. The pragmatism is not a definite characteristic and a test that does not possess all the characteristics of an explanatory study could still yield reliable and beneficial results.
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