Pragmatic Free Trial Meta
Pragmatic Free Trail Meta is an open data platform that allows research into pragmatic trials. It collects 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 with different levels of pragmatism.
Background
Pragmatic trials are increasingly acknowledged as providing evidence from the real world to support clinical decision-making. However, the use of the term "pragmatic" is inconsistent and its definition and assessment requires clarification. Pragmatic trials are designed to inform clinical practices and policy decisions rather than confirm a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic trial should also aim to be as similar to real-world clinical practice as is possible, including the recruitment of participants, setting up and design as well as the execution of the intervention, determination and analysis of outcomes and primary analyses. This is a major distinction from explanation trials (as described by Schwartz and Lellouch1), which are intended to provide a more thorough confirmation of the hypothesis.
Trials that are truly pragmatic must be careful not to blind patients or clinicians in order to cause distortions in estimates of the effect of treatment. Practical trials should also aim to recruit patients from a wide range of health care settings,
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Furthermore, trials that are pragmatic must be focused on outcomes that matter to patients, like the quality of life and functional recovery. This is particularly relevant when it comes to trials that involve invasive procedures or those with potential serious adverse events. The CRASH trial29 compared a two-page report with an electronic monitoring system for patients in hospitals suffering from chronic cardiac failure. The catheter trial28 on the other hand
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In addition to these aspects, pragmatic trials should minimize trial procedures and data-collection requirements to cut down on costs and time commitments. Furthermore, pragmatic trials should seek to make their findings as applicable to clinical practice as possible by ensuring that their primary analysis follows the intention-to treat approach (as described in CONSORT extensions for pragmatic trials).
Despite these requirements, a number of RCTs with features that challenge the notion of pragmatism were incorrectly labeled pragmatic and published in journals of all kinds. This can lead to misleading claims of pragmatism, and the usage of the term should be made more uniform. The creation of a PRECIS-2 tool that can provide a standardized objective evaluation of the pragmatic characteristics is a good start.
Methods
In a pragmatic study the goal is to inform clinical or policy decisions by demonstrating how the intervention can be integrated into everyday routine care. Explanatory trials test hypotheses about the cause-effect relationship within idealised conditions. Therefore, pragmatic trials might be less reliable than explanatory trials and might be more susceptible to bias in their design, conduct, and analysis. Despite their limitations, pragmatic research can be a valuable source of data for making decisions within the context of healthcare.
The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains, ranging from 1 to 5 (very pragmatic). In this study the areas of recruitment, organization and flexibility in delivery, flexible adherence and follow-up scored high. However, the principal outcome and the method of missing data were scored below the practical limit. This suggests that it is possible to design a trial that has high-quality pragmatic features, without harming the quality of the outcomes.
It is, however, difficult to judge the degree of pragmatism a trial is since pragmaticity is not a definite characteristic; certain aspects of a trial can be more pragmatic than others. A trial's pragmatism can be affected by changes to the protocol or the logistics during the trial. Koppenaal and colleagues found that 36% of 89 pragmatic studies were placebo-controlled, or conducted prior to licensing. The majority of them were single-center. They are not close to the usual practice, and
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A common aspect of pragmatic studies is that researchers try to make their findings more meaningful by analyzing subgroups of the trial sample. This can lead to unbalanced comparisons and lower statistical power, which increases the chance of not or incorrectly detecting differences in the primary outcome. This was a problem during the meta-analysis of pragmatic trials because secondary outcomes were not adjusted for covariates' differences at baseline.
Additionally, studies that are pragmatic may pose challenges to collection and interpretation safety data. This is because adverse events are usually self-reported and are prone to reporting errors, delays or coding errors. It is therefore crucial to enhance the quality of outcomes ascertainment in these trials, in particular 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% pragmatist there are benefits to including pragmatic components in trials. These include:
Enhancing sensitivity to issues in the real world which reduces cost and size of the study as well as allowing trial results to be more quickly translated into actual clinical practice (by including patients from routine care). However, pragmatic trials can also have drawbacks. The right amount of heterogeneity, like could help a study generalise its findings to many different settings or patients. However the wrong kind of heterogeneity can decrease the sensitivity of the test and thus decrease the ability of a study to detect small 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 to distinguish between explanatory trials that confirm a physiological or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic trials that inform the selection of appropriate therapies in the real-world clinical setting. Their framework included nine domains, each scoring on a scale ranging from 1 to 5, with 1 indicating more lucid and 5 indicating more practical. The domains covered recruitment of intervention, setting up, delivery of intervention, flexible adhering to the program and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 featured similar domains and an assessment scale ranging from 1 to 5. Koppenaal et al10 created an adaptation of this assessment dubbed the Pragmascope that was simpler to use in systematic reviews. They found that pragmatic reviews scored higher across all domains, however they scored lower in the primary analysis domain.
The difference in the primary analysis domain could be explained by the fact that most pragmatic trials analyze their data in an intention to treat manner, whereas some explanatory trials do not. The overall score for
프라그마틱 슈가러쉬 systematic reviews that were pragmatic was lower when the domains of management, flexible delivery and following-up were combined.
It is important to remember that a study that is pragmatic does not mean a low-quality trial. In fact, there is a growing number of clinical trials which use the word 'pragmatic,' either in their abstracts or titles (as defined by MEDLINE but which is not precise nor sensitive).