Pragmatic Free Trial Meta
Pragmatic Free Trail Meta is an open data platform that enables research into pragmatic trials. It shares clean trial data and ratings using PRECIS-2, which allows for multiple and varied meta-epidemiological research studies to compare treatment effects estimates across trials that have different levels of pragmatism and other design features.
Background
Pragmatic trials provide real-world evidence that can be used to make clinical decisions. However, the usage of the term "pragmatic" is not consistent and its definition and assessment requires further clarification. The purpose of pragmatic trials is to inform clinical practices and policy decisions rather than prove a physiological or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic trial should try to be as close as it is to actual clinical practices which include the recruitment of participants, setting, designing, delivery and execution of interventions, determining and analysis outcomes, and
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Truly pragmatic trials should not conceal participants or clinicians. This can lead to a bias in the estimates of the effects of treatment. The pragmatic trials also include patients from different healthcare settings to ensure that their results can be generalized to the real world.
Additionally, clinical trials should concentrate on outcomes that are important to patients, like the quality of life and functional recovery. This is particularly relevant for trials that involve invasive procedures or have potentially dangerous adverse impacts. The CRASH trial29, for instance focused on the functional outcome to evaluate a two-page case report with an electronic system for monitoring of patients in hospitals suffering from chronic heart failure. Similarly, the catheter trial28 used urinary tract infections that are symptomatic of catheters as its primary outcome.
In addition to these features, pragmatic trials should minimize the trial's procedures and requirements for data collection to reduce costs. Finaly the aim of pragmatic trials is to make their findings as relevant to actual clinical practices as they can. This can be accomplished by ensuring that their analysis is based on an intention-to treat method (as described within CONSORT extensions).
Despite these criteria, many 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 pragmatism, and the usage of the term should be standardized. The creation of a PRECIS-2 tool that can provide an objective, standardized evaluation of pragmatic aspects is the first step.
Methods
In a pragmatic study the goal is to inform policy or clinical decisions by showing how an intervention could be implemented into routine care. Explanatory trials test hypotheses concerning the causal-effect relationship in idealized conditions. Therefore, pragmatic trials could have less internal validity than explanatory trials, and could be more susceptible to bias in their design, conduct, and analysis. Despite their limitations, pragmatic research can be a valuable source of information to make decisions in the healthcare context.
The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates the degree of pragmatism in an RCT by scoring it across 9 domains ranging from 1 (very explicative) to 5 (very pragmatic). In this study the areas of recruitment, organisation as well as flexibility in delivery flexible adherence, and follow-up received 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 harming the quality of the results.
However, it is difficult to assess the degree of pragmatism a trial is since pragmatism is not a binary characteristic; certain aspects of a study can be more pragmatic than others. The pragmatism of a trial can be affected by changes to the protocol or logistics during the trial. Koppenaal and colleagues discovered that 36% of the 89 pragmatic studies were placebo-controlled or conducted prior to licensing. Most were also single-center. This means that they are not quite as typical and are only pragmatic in the event that their sponsors are supportive of the lack of blinding in such trials.
Additionally, a typical feature of pragmatic trials is that the researchers try to make their results more meaningful by analysing subgroups of the trial. However, this can lead to unbalanced comparisons with a lower statistical power, increasing the risk of either not detecting or misinterpreting differences in the primary outcome. This was a problem in the meta-analysis of pragmatic trials due to the fact that secondary outcomes were not corrected for differences in covariates at the baseline.
In addition the pragmatic trials may be a challenge in the collection and interpretation of safety data. It is because adverse events are typically self-reported, and are prone to delays, inaccuracies or coding errors. It is important to improve the quality and accuracy of the results in these trials.
Results
Although the definition of pragmatism does not require that all trials are 100 percent pragmatic, there are advantages of including pragmatic elements in clinical trials. These include:
Increasing sensitivity to real-world issues, reducing study size and cost as well as allowing trial results to be faster implemented into clinical practice (by including routine patients). But pragmatic trials can have their disadvantages. For instance,
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A number of studies have attempted to categorize pragmatic trials with a variety of definitions and scoring systems. Schwartz and Lellouch1 created a framework to discern between explanation-based studies that support the physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis, and pragmatic studies that help inform the choice for appropriate therapies in clinical practice. The framework was comprised of nine domains, each scoring on a scale ranging from 1 to 5 with 1 being more informative and 5 suggesting more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment, setting, intervention delivery with flexibility, follow-up and
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The initial PRECIS tool3 featured similar domains and an assessment scale ranging from 1 to 5. Koppenaal et al10 created an adaptation of this assessment called the Pragmascope that was simpler to use in systematic reviews. They discovered that pragmatic systematic reviews had higher average score in most domains but lower scores in the primary analysis domain.
This difference in the primary analysis domain could be due to the fact that most pragmatic trials analyse their data in an intention to treat way, whereas some explanatory trials do not. The overall score was lower for systematic reviews that were pragmatic when the domains of organisation, flexible delivery and follow-up were combined.
It is important to remember that a pragmatic trial doesn't necessarily mean a low quality trial, and there is an increasing number of clinical trials (as defined by MEDLINE search, however it is neither sensitive nor specific) that employ the term 'pragmatic' in their abstract or title.