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Background

Pragmatic trials are increasingly recognized as providing real-world evidence to support clinical decision-making. The term "pragmatic", however, is not used in a consistent manner and its definition and measurement require further clarification. The purpose of pragmatic trials is to guide clinical practice and policy decisions, rather than confirm the validity of a clinical or physiological hypothesis. A pragmatic trial should aim to be as similar to real-world clinical practice as possible, such as its recruitment of participants, setting up and design, the delivery and implementation of the intervention, determination and analysis of outcomes as well as primary analyses. This is a major distinction from explanation trials (as described by Schwartz and Lellouch1) which are designed to provide more thorough confirmation of a hypothesis.

The most pragmatic trials should not blind participants or the clinicians. This could lead to a bias in the estimates of the effects of treatment. The pragmatic trials also include patients from various health care settings to ensure that their results can be applied to the real world.

Finally, pragmatic trials must focus on outcomes that matter to patients, such as the quality of life and functional recovery. This is especially important for trials involving invasive procedures or those with potential serious adverse events. The CRASH trial29 compared a 2 page report with an electronic monitoring system for patients in hospitals with chronic heart failure. The catheter trial28, however utilized symptomatic catheter-related urinary tract infections as its 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. Finally, pragmatic trials should seek to make their results 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).

Many RCTs that do not meet the criteria for pragmatism but have features that are contrary to pragmatism, have been published in journals of different types and incorrectly labeled pragmatic. This can result in misleading claims of pragmaticity and the use of the term must be standardized. The creation of a PRECIS-2 tool that offers a standardized objective assessment of pragmatic features is a first step.

Methods

In a pragmatic research study the aim is to inform clinical or policy decisions by demonstrating how an intervention could be integrated into routine care in real-world situations. This is distinct from explanation trials, which test hypotheses about the causal-effect relationship in idealized settings. Therefore, pragmatic trials might have less internal validity than explanatory trials and may be more susceptible to bias in their design, conduct, and 프라그마틱 불법 analysis. Despite these limitations, pragmatic trials may contribute valuable information to decision-making in the context of healthcare.

The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains, ranging between 1 and 5 (very pragmatist). In this study, the recruit-ment organisation, flexibility: delivery, flexible adherence and follow-up domains were awarded high scores, but the primary outcome and the method of missing data were below the pragmatic limit. This suggests that a trial can be designed with well-thought-out practical features, yet not harming the quality of the trial.

However, it's difficult to determine the degree of pragmatism a trial really is because pragmaticity is not a definite quality; certain aspects of a study can be more pragmatic than others. Moreover, protocol or logistic modifications during the course of an experiment can alter its score on pragmatism. Koppenaal and colleagues found that 36% of 89 pragmatic studies were placebo-controlled or conducted prior to the licensing. They also found that the majority were single-center. They are not in line with the standard practice, and can only be referred to as pragmatic if their sponsors agree that such trials are not blinded.

A common feature of pragmatic research is that researchers try to make their findings more relevant by studying subgroups of the trial sample. However, this can lead to unbalanced comparisons with a lower statistical power, increasing the likelihood of missing or misinterpreting the results of the primary outcome. This was a problem during the meta-analysis of pragmatic trials as secondary outcomes were not adjusted for differences in covariates at the time of baseline.

In addition, pragmatic studies can pose difficulties in the gathering and interpretation of safety data. This is due to the fact that adverse events are usually self-reported, and are prone to delays, errors or coding errors. It is therefore important to improve the quality of outcome for these trials, in particular by using national registries rather than relying on participants to report adverse events on the trial's database.

Results

Although the definition of pragmatism does not require that all clinical trials are 100% pragmatist, there are benefits to including pragmatic components in trials. These include:

Increasing sensitivity to real-world issues which reduces the size of studies and their costs, and enabling the trial results to be more quickly transferred into real-world clinical practice (by including patients from routine care). However, pragmatic studies can also have disadvantages. For example, the right type of heterogeneity can help a trial to generalise its results to different settings and patients. However the wrong kind of heterogeneity may reduce the assay's sensitiveness and consequently reduce the power of a trial to detect even minor effects of treatment.

A number of studies have attempted to classify pragmatic trials with various definitions and scoring systems. Schwartz and Lellouch1 have developed a framework for distinguishing between research studies that prove a physiological or clinical hypothesis as well as pragmatic trials that help in the choice of appropriate therapies in the real-world clinical setting. Their framework included nine domains that were scored on a scale ranging from 1 to 5 with 1 indicating more lucid and 5 indicating more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment and setting, delivery of intervention, flexible adherence, follow-up and primary analysis.

The original PRECIS tool3 was built on the same scale and domains. Koppenaal et al10 created an adaptation of this assessment called the Pragmascope that was simpler to use in systematic reviews. They found that pragmatic reviews scored higher in all domains, but scored lower in the primary analysis domain.

This distinction in the primary analysis domain could be explained by the fact that most pragmatic trials process their data in an intention to treat manner, 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 merged.

It is crucial to keep in mind that a study that is pragmatic does not mean a low-quality trial. In fact, there are increasing numbers of clinical trials which use the term "pragmatic" either in their title or abstract (as defined by MEDLINE, but that is not precise nor sensitive). The use of these terms in titles and abstracts could indicate a greater understanding of the importance of pragmatism, but it is unclear whether this is evident in the contents of the articles.

Conclusions

In recent years, pragmatic trials have been becoming more popular in research as the value of real world evidence is becoming increasingly acknowledged. They are randomized clinical trials which compare real-world treatment options rather than experimental treatments under development, they include patients that more closely mirror those treated in routine care, they use comparators that are used in routine practice (e.g. existing medications) and depend on participants' self-reports of outcomes. This approach can overcome the limitations of observational research, for example, the biases that are associated with the reliance on volunteers as well as the insufficient availability and coding variations in national registries.

Pragmatic trials also have advantages, including the ability to leverage existing data sources and a greater chance of detecting significant differences from traditional trials. However, these trials could be prone to limitations that compromise their credibility and generalizability. The participation rates in certain trials may be lower than expected due to the healthy-volunteering effect, financial incentives, or competition from other research studies. Practical trials are often limited by the need to recruit participants on time. Some pragmatic trials also lack controls to ensure that observed differences aren't due to biases that occur during the trial.

The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified 48 RCTs self-labeled as pragmatic and that were published until 2022. They evaluated pragmatism using the PRECIS-2 tool that includes the eligibility criteria for domains as well as recruitment, flexibility in intervention adherence, and follow-up. They found 14 trials scored highly pragmatic or pragmatic (i.e. scoring 5 or higher) in at least one of these domains.

Trials that have high pragmatism scores tend to have broader criteria for eligibility than traditional RCTs. They also include populations from various hospitals. According to the authors, can make pragmatic trials more useful and applicable in the daily clinical. However, they cannot guarantee that a trial is free of bias. Moreover, the pragmatism of the trial is not a predetermined characteristic and 프라그마틱 무료 슬롯 a pragmatic trial that does not possess all the characteristics of an explanatory trial can produce valuable and reliable results.