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Pragmatic Free Trial Meta Pragmatic Free Trial Meta is a noncommercial open data platform and infrastructure that facilitates research on pragmatic trials It shares clean trial data and ratings using PRECIS2 permitting multiple and varied metaepidemiological studies to evaluate the effect of treatment on trials with different levels of pragmatism as well as other design features Background Pragmatic trials are becoming more widely acknowledged as providing evidence from the real world to support clinical decisionmaking However the usage of the term pragmatic is inconsistent and its definition as well as assessment requires clarification Pragmatic trials must be designed to guide clinical practice and policy decisions rather than confirm a physiological or clinical hypothesis A pragmatic study should strive to be as close as possible to realworld clinical practices which include the recruiting participants setting design implementation and delivery of interventions determining and analysis outcomes and primary analyses This is a significant difference between explanatory trials as defined by Schwartz Lellouch1 which are designed to test a hypothesis in a more thorough way Studies that are truly pragmatic must avoid attempting to blind participants or clinicians as this could cause bias in estimates of the effect of treatment Practical trials also involve patients from various health care settings to ensure that the outcomes can be compared to the real world Additionally the focus of pragmatic trials should be on outcomes that are crucial to patients such as quality of life or functional recovery This is particularly important when it comes to trials that involve invasive procedures or those with potentially dangerous adverse events The CRASH trial29 for instance focused on the functional outcome to compare a 2page casereport with an electronic system to monitor the health of patients in hospitals suffering from chronic heart failure and the catheter trial28 utilized symptomatic catheterassociated urinary tract infections as the primary outcome In addition to these features pragmatic trials should reduce the requirements for data collection and trial procedures to cut down on costs and time commitments 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 the intention to treat approach as described in CONSORT extensions Despite these guidelines many RCTs with features that challenge pragmatism have been incorrectly selflabeled pragmatic and published in journals of all types This can lead to false claims about pragmatism and the terms use should be standardised The creation of a PRECIS2 tool that can provide an objective and standardized evaluation of the pragmatic characteristics is the first step Methods In a pragmatic study it is the intention to inform clinical or policy decisions by showing how an intervention could be implemented into routine care Explanatory trials test hypotheses about the causeeffect relation within idealized conditions Therefore pragmatic trials might have less internal validity than explanatory trials and might 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 PRECIS2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains with scores ranging from 1 to 5 very pragmatist In this study the recruitment organisation flexibility delivery flexible adherence and followup domains scored high scores however the primary outcome and the method of missing data were below the pragmatic limit This suggests that a trial can be designed with effective pragmatic features without compromising its quality However its difficult to assess how practical a particular trial is since pragmaticity is not a definite characteristic certain aspects of a study can be more pragmatic than others A trials pragmatism could be affected by changes to the protocol or logistics during the trial In addition 36 of 89 pragmatic trials identified by Koppenaal et al were placebocontrolled or conducted prior to approval and a majority of them were singlecenter This means that they are not very close to usual practice and are only pragmatic when their sponsors are accepting of the lack of blinding in such trials A common feature of pragmatic studies is that researchers attempt to make their findings more meaningful by studying subgroups within the trial This can result in unbalanced analyses that have less statistical power This increases the possibility of omitting or misinterpreting differences in the primary outcomes In the case of the pragmatic studies that were included in this metaanalysis this was a significant problem since the secondary outcomes were not adjusted for differences in the baseline covariates Additionally practical trials can have challenges with respect to the gathering and interpretation of safety data This is because adverse events are typically reported by participants themselves and are prone to delays in reporting inaccuracies or coding errors It is therefore crucial to improve the quality of outcomes for these trials and ideally by using national registries rather than relying on participants to report adverse events on the trials own database Results While the definition of pragmatism does not require that all trials be 100 percent pragmatic there are some advantages of including pragmatic elements in clinical trials These include Increased sensitivity to realworld issues which reduces cost and size of the study and enabling the trial results to be more quickly implemented into clinical practice by including patients from routine care But pragmatic trials can be a challenge The right kind of heterogeneity for instance could help a study extend its findings to different settings or patients However the wrong type can reduce the sensitivity of an assay and therefore lessen the power of a trial to detect even minor effects of treatment Numerous studies have attempted to categorize pragmatic trials with a variety of definitions and scoring systems Schwartz and Lellouch1 created an approach to distinguish between research studies that prove the clinical or physiological hypothesis as well as pragmatic trials that inform the selection of appropriate therapies in clinical practice The framework was comprised of nine domains that were evaluated on a scale of 15 with 1 being more explanatory while 5 was more pragmatic The domains included recruitment and setting up the delivery of intervention flexible adherence and primary analysis 프라그마틱 무료체험 tool3 featured similar domains and scales from 1 to 5 Koppenaal et al10 created an adaptation to this assessment dubbed the Pragmascope that was simpler to use in systematic reviews They discovered that pragmatic reviews scored higher across all domains however they scored lower in the primary analysis domain This distinction in the primary analysis domain could be due to the fact that most pragmatic trials analyze their data in an intention to treat method however some explanation trials do not The overall score was lower for pragmatic systematic reviews when the domains of the organization flexibility of delivery and followup were merged It is important to remember that a pragmatic trial does not necessarily mean a low quality trial and there is an increasing rate of clinical trials as defined by MEDLINE search but this is neither specific nor sensitive which use the word pragmatic in their abstracts or titles The use of these terms in abstracts and titles could suggest a greater awareness of the importance of pragmatism but it is unclear whether this is evident in the content of the articles Conclusions In recent years pragmatic trials are gaining popularity in research as the value of realworld evidence is becoming increasingly acknowledged They are randomized clinical trials which compare realworld treatment options rather than experimental treatments under development they include populations of patients that more closely mirror the patients who receive routine care they use comparators which exist in routine practice eg existing drugs and depend on the selfreporting of participants about outcomes This method can help overcome limitations of observational studies which include the limitations of relying on volunteers and limited availability and the variability of coding in national registry systems Other benefits of pragmatic trials include the ability to utilize existing data sources as well as a higher likelihood of detecting meaningful changes than traditional trials However pragmatic trials may still have limitations that undermine their reliability and generalizability Participation rates in some trials may be lower than expected due to the healthyvolunteering effect financial incentives or competition from other research studies The requirement to recruit participants quickly restricts the sample size and the impact of many practical trials In addition some pragmatic trials dont have controls to ensure that the observed differences are not due to biases in trial conduct The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified 48 RCTs that selfdescribed themselves as pragmatist and published until 2022 They assessed pragmatism using the PRECIS2 tool which consists of the eligibility criteria for domains recruitment flexibility in adherence to intervention and followup They discovered that 14 trials scored highly pragmatic or pragmatic ie scoring 5 or above in at least one of these domains Trials that have a high pragmatism score tend to have higher eligibility criteria than traditional RCTs which include very specific criteria that arent likely to be found in the clinical environment and they contain patients from a broad range of hospitals These characteristics according to the authors can make pragmatic trials more relevant and applicable in the daily practice However they cannot guarantee that a trial will be free of bias The pragmatism is not a fixed attribute the test that does not have all the characteristics of an explanatory study may still yield valid and useful outcomes