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Pragmatic Free Trail Meta is an open data platform that facilitates research into pragmatic trials. It collects and shares cleaned trial data and ratings using PRECIS-2 which allows for multiple and varied meta-epidemiological studies that examine the effects of treatment across trials that have different levels of pragmatism as well as other design features.
Background
Pragmatic trials are increasingly recognized as providing real-world evidence to support clinical decision-making. However, the use of the term "pragmatic" is not consistent and its definition and assessment requires further clarification. The purpose of pragmatic trials is to inform clinical practice and policy decisions, rather than confirm an hypothesis that is based on a clinical or
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Truly pragmatic trials should not blind participants or clinicians. This can lead to a bias in the estimates of the effects of treatment. The trials that are pragmatic should also try to recruit patients from a wide range of health care settings so that their results can be compared to the real world.
Furthermore, trials that are pragmatic must focus on outcomes that matter to patients, such as the quality of life and functional recovery. This is particularly relevant when it comes to trials that involve invasive procedures or those with potentially dangerous adverse events. The CRASH trial29 compared a 2 page report with an electronic monitoring system for patients in hospitals suffering from chronic cardiac failure. The catheter trial28, however was based on symptomatic catheter-related urinary tract infection as its primary outcome.
In addition to these features pragmatic trials should also reduce the requirements for data collection and trial procedures to cut costs and time commitments. In the end these trials should strive to make their findings as applicable to current clinical practice as is possible. This can be achieved by ensuring their primary analysis is based on an intention-to treat method (as defined in CONSORT extensions).
Many RCTs which do not meet the criteria for pragmatism however, they have characteristics that are contrary to pragmatism have been published in journals of different types and incorrectly labeled as pragmatic. This can lead to false claims of pragmatism and the use of the term should be made more uniform. The development of a PRECIS-2 tool that offers an objective, standardized assessment of pragmatic features is the first step.
Methods
In a practical trial it is the intention to inform policy or clinical decisions by demonstrating how an intervention would be incorporated into real-world routine care. Explanatory trials test hypotheses regarding the cause-effect relation within idealized environments. In this way, pragmatic trials may have a lower internal validity than explanatory studies and be more susceptible to biases in their design, analysis, and conduct. Despite these limitations, pragmatic trials may be a valuable source of information for decision-making in healthcare.
The PRECIS-2 tool evaluates an RCT on 9 domains, ranging from 1 to 5 (very pragmatic). In this study, the recruit-ment organisation, flexibility: delivery, flexible adherence and follow-up domains were awarded high scores, however, the primary outcome and the method for missing data were below the pragmatic limit. This suggests that it is possible to design a trial with high-quality pragmatic features, without damaging the quality of its results.
However, it's difficult to judge how pragmatic a particular trial is since the pragmatism score is not a binary attribute; some aspects of a trial can be more pragmatic than others. Moreover, protocol or logistic modifications during the course of the trial may alter its pragmatism score. In addition, 36% of the 89 pragmatic trials identified by Koppenaal and colleagues were placebo-controlled or conducted prior to licensing and most were single-center. Thus, they are not very close to usual practice and can only be called pragmatic in the event that their sponsors are supportive of the lack of blinding in such trials.
A typical feature of pragmatic research is that researchers try to make their findings more meaningful by analyzing subgroups within the trial. However, this can lead to unbalanced comparisons and lower statistical power, thereby increasing the likelihood of missing or misinterpreting the results of the primary outcome. In the case of the pragmatic studies included in this meta-analysis, this was a significant problem since the secondary outcomes were not adjusted to account for differences in baseline covariates.
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Results
While the definition of pragmatism does not require that all clinical trials are 100% pragmatist There are advantages to including pragmatic components in trials. These include:
By incorporating routine patients, the results of trials can be translated more quickly into clinical practice. However, pragmatic trials can also have disadvantages. The right amount of heterogeneity, for example, can help a study expand its findings to different settings or patients. However the wrong kind of heterogeneity can reduce the sensitivity of an assay, and therefore decrease the ability of a study to detect minor treatment effects.
Several studies have attempted to classify pragmatic trials using a variety of definitions and scoring methods. Schwartz and Lellouch1 have developed a framework to distinguish between research studies that prove the clinical or physiological hypothesis, and pragmatic trials that aid in the choice of appropriate therapies in real-world clinical practice. The framework was comprised of nine domains, each scoring on a scale ranging from 1-5, with 1 indicating more lucid and 5 suggesting more pragmatic. The domains were recruitment and setting, delivery of intervention with flexibility, follow-up and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 featured similar domains and scales from 1 to 5. Koppenaal et. al10 devised an adaptation of this assessment, known as the Pragmascope which was more user-friendly to use for systematic reviews. They discovered that pragmatic reviews scored higher on average across all domains, however they scored lower in the primary analysis domain.
The difference in the primary analysis domains can be explained by the way most pragmatic trials analyse data. Some explanatory trials, however, do not. The overall score was lower for systematic reviews that were pragmatic when the domains of the organization, flexibility of delivery and follow-up were merged.
