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Pragmatic Free Trial Meta Pragmatic Free Trial Meta is a noncommercial open data platform and infrastructure that supports research on pragmatic trials It collects and distributes cleaned trial data ratings and evaluations using PRECIS2 This allows for diverse metaepidemiological analyses to evaluate the effects of treatment across trials of various levels of pragmatism Background Pragmatic trials are increasingly acknowledged as providing evidence from the real world for clinical decision making However the use of the term pragmatic is not consistent and its definition and assessment requires 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 recruiting participants setting design delivery and implementation of interventions determining and analysis outcomes and primary analysis This is a major distinction between explanatory trials as defined by Schwartz and Lellouch1 which are designed to prove a hypothesis in a more thorough manner Studies that are truly pragmatic must not attempt to blind participants or the clinicians in order to cause distortions in estimates of the effects of treatment Pragmatic trials should also seek to recruit patients from a wide range of health care settings to ensure that their findings can be applied to the real world Finally pragmatic trials must concentrate on outcomes that are important to patients like quality of life and functional recovery This is especially important in trials that require surgical procedures that are invasive or may have dangerous adverse consequences The CRASH trial29 compared a 2page report with an electronic monitoring system for hospitalized patients suffering from chronic cardiac failure The catheter trial28 on the other hand utilized symptomatic catheterrelated urinary tract infection as the primary outcome In addition to these aspects pragmatic trials should minimize the trial procedures and data collection requirements to reduce costs Furthermore pragmatic trials should seek to make their findings as applicable to realworld clinical practice as is possible by making sure that their primary analysis is the intentiontotreat approach as described in CONSORT extensions for pragmatic trials Despite these requirements however a large number of RCTs with features that challenge pragmatism have been incorrectly selflabeled pragmatic and published in journals of all types This can lead to misleading claims of pragmatism and the usage of the term should be made more uniform The creation of a PRECIS2 tool that can provide an objective standardized assessment of pragmatic features is a first step Methods In a pragmatic trial the goal is to inform clinical or policy decisions by showing how an intervention could be integrated into everyday routine care Explanatory trials test hypotheses regarding the causeeffect relationship within idealised environments In this way pragmatic trials can have a lower internal validity than explanatory studies and are more susceptible to biases in their design analysis conduct and design Despite their limitations pragmatic research can be a valuable source of data for making decisions within the healthcare context The PRECIS2 tool measures the level of pragmatism that is present in an RCT by assessing it on 9 domains ranging from 1 very explicit to 5 very pragmatic In this study the domains of recruitment organisation as well as flexibility in delivery flexible adherence and followup were awarded high scores However the primary outcome and method of missing data was scored below the pragmatic limit This indicates that a trial can be designed with good practical features yet not harming the quality of the trial However it is difficult to assess how pragmatic a particular trial is since pragmaticity is not a definite quality certain aspects of a trial may be more pragmatic than others The pragmatism of a trial can be affected by modifications to the protocol or logistics during the trial In addition 36 of the 89 pragmatic trials identified by Koppenaal and colleagues were placebocontrolled or conducted before approval and a majority of them were singlecenter They are not close to the standard practice and can only be called pragmatic if their sponsors accept that these trials are not blinded Additionally a typical feature of pragmatic trials is that researchers try to make their results more relevant by analyzing subgroups of the trial sample This can lead to unbalanced analyses with less statistical power This increases the risk of omitting or misinterpreting differences in the primary outcomes In the case of the pragmatic trials included in this metaanalysis this was a significant problem since the secondary outcomes werent adjusted for variations in baseline covariates Additionally studies that are pragmatic can pose difficulties in the collection 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 variations It is therefore crucial to improve the quality of outcome for these trials in particular by using national registry databases instead of relying on participants to report adverse events on a trials own database Results While the definition of pragmatism does not require that all clinical trials be 100 pragmatist There are advantages of including pragmatic elements in trials These include Increasing sensitivity to realworld issues as well as reducing the size of studies and their costs as well as allowing trial results to be faster implemented into clinical practice by including patients from routine care But pragmatic trials can have disadvantages The right kind of heterogeneity like could help a study generalise its findings to many different patients or settings However the wrong type of heterogeneity could reduce the sensitivity of an assay and thus reduce a trials power to detect minor treatment effects 프라그마틱 무료체험 슬롯버프 of studies have attempted to categorize pragmatic trials with various definitions and scoring systems Schwartz and Lellouch1 created a framework to discern between explanationbased studies that confirm the physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic studies that inform the choice for appropriate therapies in clinical practice The framework consisted of nine domains that were evaluated on a scale of 15 with 1 being more explanatory while 5 being more pragmatic The domains included recruitment setting intervention delivery flexible adherence followup and primary analysis The original PRECIS tool3 had similar domains and a scale of 1 to 5 Koppenaal et al10 created an adaptation to this assessment dubbed the Pragmascope that was simpler to use in systematic reviews They found that pragmatic systematic reviews had a higher average score in most domains with lower scores in the primary analysis domain This difference in the main analysis domain could be explained by the fact that the majority of pragmatic trials analyze their data in the intention to treat method however some explanation trials do not The overall score was lower for systematic reviews that were pragmatic when the domains of organisation flexible delivery and followup were merged It is important to understand that a pragmatic trial does not necessarily mean a lowquality trial and in fact there is an increasing number of clinical trials as defined by MEDLINE search but this is not sensitive nor specific which use the word pragmatic in their title or abstract The use of these terms in abstracts and titles may suggest a greater awareness of the importance of pragmatism however it is not clear if this is manifested in the content of the articles Conclusions In recent times pragmatic trials are increasing in popularity in research because the value of real world evidence is becoming increasingly acknowledged They are randomized clinical trials which compare realworld treatment options rather than experimental treatments under development they involve populations of patients which are more closely resembling those treated in routine care they employ comparisons that are commonplace in practice eg existing medications and they rely on participant selfreport of outcomes This approach could help overcome the limitations of observational research such as the limitations of relying on volunteers and limited availability and the variability of coding in national registry systems 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 validity and generalizability For instance the participation rates in certain trials could be lower than expected due to the healthyvolunteer effect as well as financial incentives or competition for participants from other research studies eg industry trials The need to recruit individuals quickly reduces the size of the sample and the impact of many pragmatic trials Additionally some pragmatic trials lack controls to ensure that the observed differences arent due to biases in trial conduct The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified RCTs published up to 2022 that selfdescribed themselves as pragmatic The PRECIS2 tool was used to determine pragmatism It includes areas such as eligibility criteria and flexibility in recruitment as well as adherence to interventions and followup They discovered 14 trials scored highly pragmatic or pragmatic ie scoring 5 or more in at least one of these domains Trials with a high pragmatism score tend to have higher eligibility criteria than traditional RCTs which include very specific criteria that arent likely to be used in clinical practice and they contain patients from a broad variety of hospitals According to the authors may make pragmatic trials more relevant and applicable in the daily clinical However they cannot ensure that a study is free of bias The pragmatism principle is not a definite characteristic a pragmatic test that does not possess all the characteristics of an explanation study could still yield reliable and beneficial results