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Pragmatic Free Trial Meta Pragmatic Free Trial Meta is a free and noncommercial open data platform and infrastructure that supports research on pragmatic trials It collects and shares cleaned trial data and ratings using PRECIS2 permitting multiple and varied metaepidemiological studies that evaluate the effect of treatment on trials that have different levels of pragmatism and other design features Background Pragmatic trials provide realworld evidence that can be used to make clinical decisions The term pragmatic however is not used in a consistent manner and its definition and measurement require clarification Pragmatic trials should be designed to inform clinical practice and policy decisions not to confirm the validity of a clinical or physiological hypothesis A pragmatic trial should aim to be as close as is possible to the realworld clinical practice that include recruitment of participants setting design implementation and delivery of interventions determination and analysis outcomes and primary analyses This is a key distinction from explanatory trials as described by Schwartz and Lellouch1 that are intended to provide a more thorough proof of a hypothesis Studies that are truly practical should not attempt to blind participants or healthcare professionals as this may cause bias in the estimation of the effect of treatment Practical trials should also aim to recruit patients from a wide range of health care settings so that their results can be applied to the real world Furthermore trials that are pragmatic must concentrate on outcomes that are important to patients such as the quality of life and functional recovery This is especially important in trials that require surgical procedures that are invasive or may have dangerous adverse effects The CRASH trial29 for instance was focused on functional outcomes to compare a twopage report with an electronic system for monitoring of hospitalized patients with chronic heart failure In addition the catheter trial28 utilized symptomatic catheterassociated urinary tract infections as its primary outcome In addition to these characteristics pragmatic trials should reduce trial procedures and datacollection requirements to cut down on costs and time commitments In the end the aim of pragmatic trials is to make their results as relevant to actual clinical practices as possible This can be achieved by ensuring their primary analysis is based on an intentionto 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 kinds This can result in misleading claims of pragmaticity and the use of the term must be standardized The development of a PRECIS2 tool that provides an objective standardized evaluation of the pragmatic characteristics is a good start Methods In a pragmatic study it is the intention to inform policy or clinical decisions by demonstrating how an intervention can be integrated into routine treatment in realworld situations This is different from explanatory trials which test hypotheses about the causeeffect relationship in idealised conditions Consequently pragmatic trials may have lower internal validity than explanatory trials and might be more susceptible to bias in their design conduct and analysis Despite these limitations pragmatic trials can be a valuable source of information for decisions in the context of healthcare The PRECIS2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains ranging from 1 to 5 very pragmatist In this study the recruitment organization flexibility in delivery and followup domains scored high scores but the primary outcome and the method of missing data were not at the practical limit This suggests that it is possible to design a trial using good pragmatic features without damaging the quality of its outcomes However it is difficult to judge the degree of pragmatism a trial is since the pragmatism score is not a binary quality certain aspects of a trial can be more pragmatic than others Furthermore logistical or protocol changes during an experiment can alter its score in pragmatism Additionally 36 of the 89 pragmatic trials discovered by Koppenaal et al were placebocontrolled or conducted prior to licensing and most were singlecenter Thus they are not quite as typical and can only be called pragmatic in the event that their sponsors are supportive of the absence of blinding in these trials 프라그마틱 슬롯 무료 of pragmatic trials is that the 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 which increases the likelihood of missing or misinterpreting differences in the primary outcome This was a problem during the metaanalysis of pragmatic trials due to the fact that secondary outcomes were not adjusted for covariates that differed at the baseline Additionally practical trials can present challenges in the collection and interpretation of safety data This is because adverse events are usually selfreported and prone to delays in reporting inaccuracies or coding errors It is essential to improve the quality and accuracy of outcomes in these trials Results Although the definition of pragmatism does not require that all trials are 100 percent pragmatic there are advantages to incorporating pragmatic components into clinical trials These include By incorporating routine patients the results of the trial can be more quickly translated into clinical practice But pragmatic trials can have their disadvantages For example the right kind of heterogeneity can allow a study to generalize its findings to a variety of settings and patients However the wrong type of heterogeneity could reduce assay sensitivity and therefore lessen the ability of a trial to detect minor treatment effects A variety of studies have attempted to categorize pragmatic trials using various definitions and scoring methods Schwartz and Lellouch1 developed a framework to distinguish between explanatory studies that confirm a physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic studies that inform the choice for appropriate therapies in real world clinical practice The framework consisted of nine domains assessed on a scale of 15 which indicated that 1 was more informative and 5 being more pragmatic The domains were recruitment setting intervention delivery and followup as well as flexible adherence and primary analysis The initial PRECIS tool3 featured similar domains and scales from 1 to 5 Koppenaal et al10 created an adaptation of this assessment dubbed the Pragmascope which was more userfriendly 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 The difference in the primary analysis domain can be explained by the way that most pragmatic trials analyze data Certain explanatory trials however do not The overall score for systematic reviews that were pragmatic was lower when the domains of organisation flexible delivery and followup were merged It is important to remember that a pragmatic trial does not necessarily mean a lowquality trial and in fact there is a growing number of clinical trials as defined by MEDLINE search but this is not specific or sensitive that use the term pragmatic in their title or abstract 프라그마틱 무료스핀 of these terms in titles and abstracts may suggest a greater awareness of the importance of pragmatism however it is not clear if this is evident in the content of the articles Conclusions As the importance of realworld evidence grows commonplace and pragmatic trials have gained traction in research They are randomized clinical trials that evaluate realworld alternatives to care instead of experimental treatments in development they have patient populations that are more similar to the ones who are treated in routine care they use comparisons that are commonplace in practice eg existing drugs and they depend on participants selfreports of outcomes This method is able to overcome the limitations of observational research such as the biases that come with the use of volunteers as well as the insufficient availability and coding variations in national registries Pragmatic trials have other advantages including the ability to use existing data sources and a higher probability of detecting meaningful distinctions from traditional trials However these trials could still have limitations that undermine their validity and generalizability For instance the participation rates in certain trials might be lower than expected due to the healthyvolunteer influence and financial incentives or competition for participants from other research studies eg industry trials Many pragmatic trials are also limited by the need to enroll participants in a timely manner Certain pragmatic trials lack controls to ensure that observed variations arent due to biases during the trial The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified RCTs that were published between 2022 and 2022 that selfdescribed themselves as pragmatic They assessed pragmatism using the PRECIS2 tool which consists of the eligibility criteria for domains and recruitment criteria as well as flexibility in adherence to interventions and followup They found 14 trials scored highly pragmatic or pragmatic ie scoring 5 or higher in at least one of these domains Trials with high pragmatism scores tend to have more lenient criteria for eligibility than conventional RCTs They also have populations from various hospitals The authors suggest that these traits can make the pragmatic trials more relevant and useful for daily practice but they do not guarantee that a trial using a pragmatic approach is free from bias The pragmatism is not a fixed characteristic and a test that does not have all the characteristics of an explanatory study could still yield reliable and beneficial results