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Pragmatic Free Trial Meta Pragmatic Free Trail Meta is an open data platform that facilitates research into pragmatic trials It collects and distributes clean trial data ratings and evaluations using PRECIS2 This allows for diverse metaepidemiological analyses that compare treatment effect estimates across trials of different levels of pragmatism 프라그마틱 무료 슬롯 are increasingly acknowledged as providing evidence from the real world to support clinical decisionmaking However the usage of the term pragmatic is not uniform and its definition as well as assessment requires clarification 프라그마틱 정품인증 of pragmatic trials is to inform policy and clinical practice decisions rather than to prove a physiological or clinical hypothesis A pragmatic trial should try to be as close as is possible to actual clinical practices including recruitment of participants setting designing delivery and execution of interventions determination and analysis results as well as primary analyses This is a major distinction from explanatory trials as described by Schwartz and Lellouch1 that are designed to provide more complete confirmation of the hypothesis The most pragmatic trials should not conceal participants or the clinicians This could lead to an overestimation of treatment effects Practical trials also involve patients from different health care settings to ensure that their results can be applied to the real world Furthermore studies that are pragmatic should focus 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 surgical procedures that are invasive or have potential serious adverse events The CRASH trial29 compared a twopage report with an electronic monitoring system for patients in hospitals suffering from chronic cardiac failure The catheter trial28 on the other hand used symptomatic catheter associated urinary tract infections as its primary outcome In addition to these aspects pragmatic trials should minimize the trials procedures and data collection requirements to reduce costs Finally pragmatic trials should try to make their findings as relevant to actual clinical practice as possible by making sure that their primary method of analysis is the intentiontotreat approach as described in CONSORT extensions for pragmatic trials Despite these guidelines many RCTs with features that defy the concept of pragmatism have been mislabeled as pragmatic and published in journals of all kinds This can result in misleading claims of pragmatism and the usage of the term must be standardized The creation of a PRECIS2 tool that provides a standardized objective assessment of pragmatic features 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 concerning the causeeffect relationship within idealised settings In this way pragmatic trials may have less internal validity than explanatory studies and be more prone to biases in their design analysis conduct and design Despite their limitations pragmatic research can provide valuable information for decisionmaking within the context of healthcare The PRECIS2 tool evaluates the degree of pragmatism in an RCT by assessing it on 9 domains ranging from 1 very explicative to 5 very pragmatic In this study the domains of recruitment organisation flexibility in delivery flexible adherence and followup received high scores However the primary outcome and the method for missing data scored below the pragmatic limit This suggests that it is possible to design a trial that has good pragmatic features without harming the quality of the results However its difficult to determine how pragmatic a particular trial is since pragmaticity is not a definite quality certain aspects of a trial may be more pragmatic than others A trials pragmatism can be affected by modifications to the protocol or logistics during the trial Koppenaal and colleagues found that 36 of the 89 pragmatic studies were placebocontrolled or conducted prior to licensing The majority of them were singlecenter They are not close to the standard practice and are only considered pragmatic if the sponsors agree that such trials are not blinded A typical 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 results and lower statistical power which increases the chance of not or misinterpreting differences in the primary outcome This was the case in the metaanalysis of pragmatic trials as secondary outcomes were not corrected for differences in covariates at baseline In addition the pragmatic trials may be a challenge in the gathering and interpretation of safety data This is due to the fact that adverse events tend to be selfreported and are prone to delays inaccuracies or coding variations Therefore it is crucial to enhance 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 Although the definition of pragmatism does not require that all trials be 100 pragmatic there are advantages to including pragmatic components in clinical trials These include By incorporating routine patients the trial results are more easily translated into clinical practice But pragmatic trials can have disadvantages For example the right kind of heterogeneity can allow a trial to generalise its results to different patients and settings however the wrong type of heterogeneity can reduce assay sensitiveness and consequently decrease the ability of a study to detect even minor effects of treatment A number of studies have attempted to categorize pragmatic trials using various definitions and scoring systems Schwartz and Lellouch1 have developed an approach to distinguish between explanationbased trials that support the clinical or physiological hypothesis as well as pragmatic trials that inform the choice of appropriate therapies in realworld clinical practice The framework was composed of nine domains scored on a 15 scale with 1 being more informative and 5 being more pragmatic The domains included recruitment and setting up the delivery of intervention flex adherence and primary analysis The original PRECIS tool3 had similar domains and an assessment scale ranging from 1 to 5 Koppenaal et al10 developed an adaptation of the assessment dubbed the Pragmascope which was more userfriendly to use for systematic reviews They found that pragmatic reviews scored higher on average across all domains however they scored lower in the primary analysis domain The difference in the analysis domain that is primary could be explained by the fact that the majority of pragmatic trials process their data in the intention to treat manner whereas some explanatory trials do not The overall score for pragmatic systematic reviews was lower when the areas of organisation flexible delivery and followingup were combined It is important to note that a pragmatic trial does not necessarily mean a low quality trial and indeed there is a growing number of clinical trials as defined by MEDLINE search but this is neither sensitive nor specific that use the term pragmatic in their abstracts or titles The use of these terms in abstracts and titles could indicate a greater understanding of the importance of pragmatism but it isnt clear if this is reflected in the content of the articles Conclusions In recent times pragmatic trials are becoming more popular in research as the importance of realworld evidence is becoming increasingly acknowledged They are clinical trials randomized that evaluate realworld alternatives to care instead of experimental treatments under development they include populations of patients that are more similar to the patients who receive routine care they employ comparators that are used in routine practice eg existing drugs and rely on participant selfreport of outcomes This approach could help overcome limitations of observational studies such as the limitations of relying on volunteers and the lack of accessibility and coding flexibility in national registries Pragmatic trials also have advantages such as the ability to leverage existing data sources and a higher chance of detecting significant differences from traditional trials However they may have some limitations that limit their effectiveness and generalizability Participation rates in some trials could be lower than expected due to the healthyvolunteering effect financial incentives or competition from other research studies The need to recruit individuals in a timely manner also limits the sample size and the impact of many practical trials In addition some pragmatic trials do not have controls to ensure that the observed differences arent due to biases in the conduct of trials The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified 48 RCTs selflabeled as pragmatic and were published from 2022 They evaluated pragmatism using the PRECIS2 tool that includes the domains eligibility criteria as well as recruitment flexibility in adherence to intervention and followup They discovered that 14 of the trials scored as highly or pragmatic sensible ie scoring 5 or more in one or more of these domains and that the majority were singlecenter Trials with high pragmatism scores tend to have more criteria for eligibility than conventional RCTs They also have patients from a variety of hospitals The authors claim that these traits can make the pragmatic trials more relevant and applicable to daily practice but they do not necessarily guarantee that a pragmatic trial is completely free of bias Moreover the pragmatism of trials is not a definite characteristic A pragmatic trial that doesnt possess all the characteristics of a explanatory trial may yield reliable and relevant results