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Pragmatic Free Trail Meta is an open data platform that enables research into pragmatic trials. It collects and shares cleaned trial data and ratings using PRECIS-2, permitting multiple and varied meta-epidemiological studies that compare treatment effects estimates across trials that have different levels of pragmatism and other design features.
Background
Pragmatic studies are increasingly recognized as providing real-world evidence for clinical decision making. The term "pragmatic" however, is used inconsistently and its definition and evaluation need further clarification. Pragmatic trials are intended to guide the practice of clinical medicine and policy decisions rather than verify a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic trial should aim to be as close as is possible to real-world clinical practices, including recruitment of participants, setting, design, implementation and delivery of interventions, determination and analysis results, as well as primary analyses. This is a key distinction from explanatory trials (as described by Schwartz and Lellouch1), which are intended to provide a more complete confirmation of an idea.
Studies that are truly practical should not attempt to blind participants or clinicians as this could cause bias in the estimation of the effects of treatment. The pragmatic trials also include patients from different health care settings to ensure that their results can be generalized to the real world.
Finally 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 in trials that involve invasive procedures or those with potential for dangerous adverse events. The CRASH trial29, for example, focused on functional outcomes to evaluate a two-page case report with an electronic system for the monitoring of patients admitted to hospitals with chronic heart failure. Similarly, the catheter trial28 focused on urinary tract infections that are symptomatic of catheters as its primary outcome.
In addition to these aspects pragmatic trials should reduce the trial's procedures and data collection requirements in order to reduce costs. In the end these trials should strive to make their findings as relevant to actual clinical practice as is possible. This can be achieved by ensuring that their primary analysis is based on an intention-to treat method (as described in CONSORT extensions).
Despite these requirements however, a large number of RCTs with features that challenge the concept of pragmatism have been mislabeled as pragmatic and published in journals of all types. This could lead to misleading claims of pragmaticity, and the usage of the term needs to be standardized. The creation of the PRECIS-2 tool, which provides an objective and standard assessment of pragmatic characteristics, is a good first step.
Methods
In a practical trial the goal is to inform policy or clinical decisions by showing how an intervention could be incorporated into real-world routine care. This differs from explanation trials that test hypotheses regarding the causal-effect relationship in idealized situations. In this way, pragmatic trials may have lower internal validity than explanatory studies and are more susceptible to biases in their design analysis, conduct, and design. Despite these limitations, pragmatic trials may be a valuable source of information for decisions in the context of healthcare.
The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains, with scores ranging from 1 to 5 (very pragmatist). In this study, the areas of recruitment, organisation, flexibility in delivery, flexibility in adherence, and follow-up were awarded high scores. However, the main outcome and the method for missing data was scored below the pragmatic limit. This suggests that it is possible to design a trial using good pragmatic features without compromising the quality of its results.
It is hard to determine the degree of pragmatism in a particular trial since pragmatism doesn't have a binary attribute. Some aspects of a study may be more pragmatic than others. 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 colleagues were placebo-controlled, or conducted prior to licensing, and the majority were single-center. Thus, they are not quite as typical and can only be described as pragmatic when their sponsors are accepting of the lack of blinding in such trials.
Another common aspect of pragmatic trials is that researchers try to make their results more relevant by analyzing subgroups of the trial sample. This can result in unbalanced analyses with lower statistical power. This increases the possibility of omitting or misinterpreting differences in the primary outcomes. This was a problem in the meta-analysis of pragmatic trials as secondary outcomes were not corrected for covariates' differences at baseline.
In addition the pragmatic trials may be a challenge in the gathering and 프라그마틱 홈페이지 interpretation of safety data. It is because adverse events are usually self-reported and are susceptible to delays, inaccuracies or coding errors. It is crucial to increase the accuracy and quality of the results in these trials.
Results
Although the definition of pragmatism does not require that all clinical trials be 100% pragmatic, there are benefits when incorporating pragmatic components into trials. These include:
Increased sensitivity to real-world issues, reducing cost and size of the study as well as allowing trial results to be faster translated into actual clinical practice (by including patients who are routinely treated). However, pragmatic studies can also have drawbacks. For instance, the right kind of heterogeneity can allow a study to generalize its results to different patients and settings; however the wrong kind of heterogeneity could reduce assay sensitivity, and thus lessen the ability of a trial to detect small treatment effects.
Many studies have attempted classify pragmatic trials using different definitions and scoring methods. Schwartz and Lellouch1 created a framework to discern between explanation-based studies that confirm the physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic studies that inform the selection of appropriate treatments in clinical practice. The framework was composed of nine domains assessed on a scale of 1-5 which indicated that 1 was more explanatory while 5 being more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment and setting up, the delivery of intervention, flex compliance and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 had similar domains and scales from 1 to 5. Koppenaal and colleagues10 created an adaptation of this assessment, called the Pragmascope which was more user-friendly to use for 프라그마틱 무료스핀 프라그마틱 무료체험 프라그마틱 슬롯 무료체험버프 (www.98e.fun) systematic reviews. They discovered that pragmatic reviews scored higher 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 approach data. Certain explanatory trials however do not. The overall score for systematic reviews that were pragmatic was lower when the domains of management, flexible delivery and follow-up were merged.
It is crucial to keep in mind that a study that is pragmatic does not necessarily mean a low-quality study. In fact, there are an increasing number of clinical trials which use the term "pragmatic" either in their title or abstract (as defined by MEDLINE however it is neither sensitive nor precise). These terms may indicate that there is a greater appreciation of pragmatism in abstracts and titles, but it isn't clear if this is reflected in content.
Conclusions
In recent years, pragmatic trials have been becoming more popular in research as the importance of real-world evidence is increasingly recognized. They are randomized clinical trials which compare real-world treatment options instead of experimental treatments in development, they have patient populations that more closely mirror those treated in routine care, they use comparators that are used in routine practice (e.g. existing drugs), and they depend on the self-reporting of participants about outcomes. This approach could help overcome the limitations of observational studies that are prone to biases that arise from relying on volunteers and the lack of availability and the variability of coding in national registries.
Other advantages of pragmatic trials include the possibility of using existing data sources, and a greater likelihood of detecting meaningful changes than traditional trials. However, pragmatic tests may still have limitations which undermine their reliability and generalizability. For instance, participation rates in some trials may be lower than anticipated due to the healthy-volunteer effect as well as financial incentives or competition for participants from other research studies (e.g., industry trials). The necessity to recruit people in a timely fashion also restricts the sample size and the impact of many pragmatic trials. In addition some pragmatic trials lack controls to ensure that the observed differences aren't due to biases in trial conduct.
The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified RCTs published up to 2022 that self-described as pragmatism. They assessed pragmatism using the PRECIS-2 tool, which includes the eligibility criteria for domains as well as recruitment, flexibility in adherence to interventions, and follow-up. They discovered that 14 of these trials scored pragmatic or highly practical (i.e. scoring 5 or more) in any one or more of these domains and that the majority of these were single-center.
Trials with a high pragmatism rating tend to have broader eligibility criteria than traditional RCTs that have specific criteria that are not likely to be used in the clinical setting, and comprise patients from a wide range of hospitals. The authors argue that these characteristics can help make the pragmatic trials more relevant and useful for daily practice, but they do not necessarily guarantee that a trial conducted in a pragmatic manner is completely free of bias. The pragmatism characteristic is not a definite characteristic; a pragmatic test that does not possess all the characteristics of an explicative study may still yield valid and useful outcomes.
Pragmatic Free Trail Meta is an open data platform that enables research into pragmatic trials. It collects and shares cleaned trial data and ratings using PRECIS-2, permitting multiple and varied meta-epidemiological studies that compare treatment effects estimates across trials that have different levels of pragmatism and other design features.
Background
Pragmatic studies are increasingly recognized as providing real-world evidence for clinical decision making. The term "pragmatic" however, is used inconsistently and its definition and evaluation need further clarification. Pragmatic trials are intended to guide the practice of clinical medicine and policy decisions rather than verify a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic trial should aim to be as close as is possible to real-world clinical practices, including recruitment of participants, setting, design, implementation and delivery of interventions, determination and analysis results, as well as primary analyses. This is a key distinction from explanatory trials (as described by Schwartz and Lellouch1), which are intended to provide a more complete confirmation of an idea.
Studies that are truly practical should not attempt to blind participants or clinicians as this could cause bias in the estimation of the effects of treatment. The pragmatic trials also include patients from different health care settings to ensure that their results can be generalized to the real world.
Finally 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 in trials that involve invasive procedures or those with potential for dangerous adverse events. The CRASH trial29, for example, focused on functional outcomes to evaluate a two-page case report with an electronic system for the monitoring of patients admitted to hospitals with chronic heart failure. Similarly, the catheter trial28 focused on urinary tract infections that are symptomatic of catheters as its primary outcome.
In addition to these aspects pragmatic trials should reduce the trial's procedures and data collection requirements in order to reduce costs. In the end these trials should strive to make their findings as relevant to actual clinical practice as is possible. This can be achieved by ensuring that their primary analysis is based on an intention-to treat method (as described in CONSORT extensions).
Despite these requirements however, a large number of RCTs with features that challenge the concept of pragmatism have been mislabeled as pragmatic and published in journals of all types. This could lead to misleading claims of pragmaticity, and the usage of the term needs to be standardized. The creation of the PRECIS-2 tool, which provides an objective and standard assessment of pragmatic characteristics, is a good first step.
Methods
In a practical trial the goal is to inform policy or clinical decisions by showing how an intervention could be incorporated into real-world routine care. This differs from explanation trials that test hypotheses regarding the causal-effect relationship in idealized situations. In this way, pragmatic trials may have lower internal validity than explanatory studies and are more susceptible to biases in their design analysis, conduct, and design. Despite these limitations, pragmatic trials may be a valuable source of information for decisions in the context of healthcare.
The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains, with scores ranging from 1 to 5 (very pragmatist). In this study, the areas of recruitment, organisation, flexibility in delivery, flexibility in adherence, and follow-up were awarded high scores. However, the main outcome and the method for missing data was scored below the pragmatic limit. This suggests that it is possible to design a trial using good pragmatic features without compromising the quality of its results.
It is hard to determine the degree of pragmatism in a particular trial since pragmatism doesn't have a binary attribute. Some aspects of a study may be more pragmatic than others. 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 colleagues were placebo-controlled, or conducted prior to licensing, and the majority were single-center. Thus, they are not quite as typical and can only be described as pragmatic when their sponsors are accepting of the lack of blinding in such trials.
Another common aspect of pragmatic trials is that researchers try to make their results more relevant by analyzing subgroups of the trial sample. This can result in unbalanced analyses with lower statistical power. This increases the possibility of omitting or misinterpreting differences in the primary outcomes. This was a problem in the meta-analysis of pragmatic trials as secondary outcomes were not corrected for covariates' differences at baseline.
In addition the pragmatic trials may be a challenge in the gathering and 프라그마틱 홈페이지 interpretation of safety data. It is because adverse events are usually self-reported and are susceptible to delays, inaccuracies or coding errors. It is crucial to increase the accuracy and quality of the results in these trials.
Results
Although the definition of pragmatism does not require that all clinical trials be 100% pragmatic, there are benefits when incorporating pragmatic components into trials. These include:
Increased sensitivity to real-world issues, reducing cost and size of the study as well as allowing trial results to be faster translated into actual clinical practice (by including patients who are routinely treated). However, pragmatic studies can also have drawbacks. For instance, the right kind of heterogeneity can allow a study to generalize its results to different patients and settings; however the wrong kind of heterogeneity could reduce assay sensitivity, and thus lessen the ability of a trial to detect small treatment effects.
Many studies have attempted classify pragmatic trials using different definitions and scoring methods. Schwartz and Lellouch1 created a framework to discern between explanation-based studies that confirm the physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic studies that inform the selection of appropriate treatments in clinical practice. The framework was composed of nine domains assessed on a scale of 1-5 which indicated that 1 was more explanatory while 5 being more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment and setting up, the delivery of intervention, flex compliance and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 had similar domains and scales from 1 to 5. Koppenaal and colleagues10 created an adaptation of this assessment, called the Pragmascope which was more user-friendly to use for 프라그마틱 무료스핀 프라그마틱 무료체험 프라그마틱 슬롯 무료체험버프 (www.98e.fun) systematic reviews. They discovered that pragmatic reviews scored higher 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 approach data. Certain explanatory trials however do not. The overall score for systematic reviews that were pragmatic was lower when the domains of management, flexible delivery and follow-up were merged.
It is crucial to keep in mind that a study that is pragmatic does not necessarily mean a low-quality study. In fact, there are an increasing number of clinical trials which use the term "pragmatic" either in their title or abstract (as defined by MEDLINE however it is neither sensitive nor precise). These terms may indicate that there is a greater appreciation of pragmatism in abstracts and titles, but it isn't clear if this is reflected in content.
Conclusions
In recent years, pragmatic trials have been becoming more popular in research as the importance of real-world evidence is increasingly recognized. They are randomized clinical trials which compare real-world treatment options instead of experimental treatments in development, they have patient populations that more closely mirror those treated in routine care, they use comparators that are used in routine practice (e.g. existing drugs), and they depend on the self-reporting of participants about outcomes. This approach could help overcome the limitations of observational studies that are prone to biases that arise from relying on volunteers and the lack of availability and the variability of coding in national registries.
Other advantages of pragmatic trials include the possibility of using existing data sources, and a greater likelihood of detecting meaningful changes than traditional trials. However, pragmatic tests may still have limitations which undermine their reliability and generalizability. For instance, participation rates in some trials may be lower than anticipated due to the healthy-volunteer effect as well as financial incentives or competition for participants from other research studies (e.g., industry trials). The necessity to recruit people in a timely fashion also restricts the sample size and the impact of many pragmatic trials. In addition some pragmatic trials lack controls to ensure that the observed differences aren't due to biases in trial conduct.
The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified RCTs published up to 2022 that self-described as pragmatism. They assessed pragmatism using the PRECIS-2 tool, which includes the eligibility criteria for domains as well as recruitment, flexibility in adherence to interventions, and follow-up. They discovered that 14 of these trials scored pragmatic or highly practical (i.e. scoring 5 or more) in any one or more of these domains and that the majority of these were single-center.
Trials with a high pragmatism rating tend to have broader eligibility criteria than traditional RCTs that have specific criteria that are not likely to be used in the clinical setting, and comprise patients from a wide range of hospitals. The authors argue that these characteristics can help make the pragmatic trials more relevant and useful for daily practice, but they do not necessarily guarantee that a trial conducted in a pragmatic manner is completely free of bias. The pragmatism characteristic is not a definite characteristic; a pragmatic test that does not possess all the characteristics of an explicative study may still yield valid and useful outcomes.
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