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작성자 Emilie Maresca
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Pragmatic Free Trial Meta

Pragmatic Free Trail Meta is an open data platform that allows research into pragmatic trials. It collects and shares cleaned 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 have different levels of pragmatism and other design features.

Background

Pragmatic trials are becoming more widely acknowledged as providing evidence from the real world for clinical decision-making. The term "pragmatic" however, is not used in a consistent manner and its definition and assessment need further clarification. The purpose of pragmatic trials is to inform clinical practices and policy choices, rather than confirm a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic trial should try to be as close as is possible to actual clinical practices which include the recruitment of participants, setting, designing, implementation and delivery of interventions, determining and analysis results, as well as primary analyses. This is a significant distinction from explanation trials (as described by Schwartz and Lellouch1), which are designed to provide more thorough confirmation of an idea.

Studies that are truly pragmatic should be careful not to blind patients or healthcare professionals, as this may result in bias in estimates of the effect of treatment. The pragmatic trials also include patients from various healthcare settings to ensure that the outcomes can be compared to the real world.

Finally the focus of pragmatic trials should be on outcomes that are vital for patients, 프라그마틱 정품인증 such as quality of life or functional recovery. This is particularly important for trials involving the use of invasive procedures or potential dangerous adverse events. The CRASH trial29 compared a 2-page report with an electronic monitoring system for patients in hospitals with chronic heart failure. The catheter trial28, on the other hand utilized symptomatic catheter-related urinary tract infection as its primary outcome.

In addition to these aspects, pragmatic trials should minimize the procedures for 프라그마틱 정품확인 (talks about it) conducting trials and data collection requirements to reduce costs. Additionally these trials should strive to make their results as applicable to current clinical practice as is possible. This can be achieved by ensuring that their primary analysis is based on the intention to treat approach (as described within CONSORT extensions).

Many RCTs that do not meet the requirements for pragmatism but contain features contrary to pragmatism, have been published in journals of various types and incorrectly labeled as pragmatic. This could lead to misleading claims of pragmatism, and the usage of the term needs to be standardized. The creation of a PRECIS-2 tool that can provide an objective and standardized evaluation of the pragmatic characteristics is a good start.

Methods

In a practical trial, the aim is to inform policy or clinical decisions by demonstrating how an intervention would be integrated into everyday routine care. Explanatory trials test hypotheses regarding the causal-effect relationship in idealized environments. Therefore, pragmatic trials could have lower internal validity than explanatory trials, and could be more susceptible to bias in their design, conduct and analysis. Despite their limitations, pragmatic studies can be a valuable source of information to make decisions in the healthcare context.

The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains, ranging from 1 to 5 (very pragmatic). In this study the domains of recruitment, organisation, flexibility in delivery, flexibility in adherence, and follow-up were awarded high scores. However, the principal outcome and method of missing data scored below the pragmatic limit. This suggests that it is possible to design a trial with high-quality pragmatic features, without compromising the quality of its outcomes.

It is difficult to determine the amount of pragmatism within a specific trial because pragmatism does not have a binary attribute. Certain aspects of a research study can be more pragmatic than other. A trial's pragmatism can be affected by modifications to the protocol or logistics during the trial. Koppenaal and colleagues found that 36% of 89 pragmatic studies were placebo-controlled, 프라그마틱 홈페이지 순위 (conversational tone) 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 are only pragmatic when their sponsors are accepting of the lack of blinding in such trials.

Another common aspect of pragmatic trials is that the researchers try to make their results more valuable by studying subgroups of the trial sample. This can lead to unbalanced analyses with less statistical power. This increases the chance of omitting or misinterpreting differences in the primary outcomes. This was a problem during the meta-analysis of pragmatic trials as secondary outcomes were not adjusted for covariates that differed at the baseline.

Additionally the pragmatic trials may present challenges in the gathering and interpretation of safety data. This is due to the fact that adverse events are generally reported by the participants themselves and are susceptible to reporting delays, inaccuracies or coding deviations. Therefore, it is crucial to enhance the quality of outcomes assessment in these trials, and ideally by using national registries rather than relying on participants to report adverse events in a trial's own database.

Results

While the definition of pragmatism does not require that all clinical trials are 100% pragmatist there are benefits when incorporating pragmatic components into trials. These include:

Enhancing sensitivity to issues in the real world as well as reducing cost and size of the study and allowing the study results to be more quickly translated into actual clinical practice (by including routine patients). However, pragmatic studies can also have disadvantages. The right amount of heterogeneity, for example could allow a study to expand its findings to different settings or patients. However the wrong type of heterogeneity could reduce the sensitivity of an assay, and therefore decrease 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 an approach to distinguish between explanatory trials that confirm the clinical or physiological hypothesis and pragmatic trials that help in the selection of appropriate treatments in real-world clinical practice. The framework was composed of nine domains evaluated on a scale of 1-5 with 1 being more lucid while 5 was more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment of intervention, setting up, delivery of intervention, flexible adherence and primary analysis.

The original PRECIS tool3 featured similar domains and scales from 1 to 5. Koppenaal and colleagues10 developed an adaptation to this assessment dubbed the Pragmascope which was more user-friendly to use in systematic reviews. They found that pragmatic systematic reviews had higher average score in most domains, but lower scores in the primary analysis domain.

The difference in the main analysis domain could be due to the fact that most pragmatic trials process their data in an intention to treat manner however some explanation trials do not. The overall score for pragmatic systematic reviews was lower when the areas of organization, flexible delivery, and follow-up were merged.

It is important to note that a pragmatic trial does not necessarily mean a low quality trial, and there is a growing number of clinical trials (as defined by MEDLINE search, but this is not specific or sensitive) that employ the term 'pragmatic' in their abstract or title. The use of these terms in titles and abstracts could indicate a greater understanding of the importance of pragmatism, but it is unclear whether this is manifested in the content of the articles.

Conclusions

As appreciation for the value of evidence from the real world becomes more widespread, pragmatic trials have gained momentum in research. They are randomized trials that evaluate real-world alternatives to clinical trials in development. They involve patient populations closer to those treated in regular care. This method could help overcome the limitations of observational research which include the biases associated with reliance on volunteers and limited availability and the variability of coding in national registry systems.

Pragmatic trials have other advantages, such as the ability to use existing data sources and a higher likelihood of detecting meaningful differences than traditional trials. However, these trials could have some limitations that limit their validity and generalizability. The participation rates in certain trials could be lower than expected because of the healthy-volunteering effect, financial incentives or competition from other research studies. The requirement to recruit participants quickly limits the sample size and impact of many pragmatic trials. Additionally, some pragmatic trials do not have controls to ensure that the observed differences aren't due to biases in the conduct of trials.

The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified 48 RCTs that self-labeled themselves as pragmatic and were published until 2022. The PRECIS-2 tool was employed to assess the pragmatism of these trials. It includes domains such as eligibility criteria and flexibility in recruitment, adherence to intervention, and follow-up. They discovered that 14 of the trials scored highly or pragmatic pragmatic (i.e. scoring 5 or higher) in one or more of these domains and that the majority of them were single-center.

Studies that have high pragmatism scores tend to have more lenient criteria for eligibility than traditional RCTs. They also have patients from a variety of hospitals. The authors suggest that these characteristics can help make pragmatic trials more effective and relevant to everyday practice, but they do not necessarily guarantee that a trial using a pragmatic approach is free from bias. Moreover, the pragmatism of the trial is not a predetermined characteristic A pragmatic trial that does not contain all the characteristics of an explanatory trial may yield reliable and relevant results.

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