Pragmatic Free Trial Meta
Pragmatic Free Trail Meta is an open data platform that enables research into pragmatic trials. It collects and distributes cleaned trial data, ratings and evaluations using PRECIS-2. This allows for diverse meta-epidemiological analyses to evaluate the effects of treatment across trials of different levels of pragmatism.
Background
Pragmatic studies provide real-world evidence that can be used to make clinical decisions. The term "pragmatic" however, is used inconsistently and its definition and evaluation require clarification. Pragmatic trials should be designed to guide clinical practice and policy decisions, rather than to prove an hypothesis that is based on a clinical or physiological basis. A pragmatic study should try to be as similar to real-world clinical practice as possible, including in the recruitment of participants, setting up and design as well as the implementation of the intervention, and
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The trials that are truly practical should avoid attempting to blind participants or healthcare professionals as this could lead to bias in estimates of the effects of treatment. Practical trials should also aim to enroll patients from a wide range of health care settings so that their results are generalizable to the real world.
Additionally the focus of pragmatic trials should be on outcomes that are vital to patients, such as quality of life or
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In addition to these characteristics pragmatic trials should reduce the procedures for conducting trials and requirements for data collection to cut costs and time commitments. Additionally, pragmatic trials should seek to make their results as applicable to clinical practice as they can by ensuring that their primary analysis is based on the intention-to-treat method (as described in CONSORT extensions for pragmatic trials).
Many RCTs that don't meet the criteria for pragmatism but contain features contrary to pragmatism have been published in journals of various kinds and
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Methods
In a pragmatic study, the goal is to inform policy or clinical decisions by demonstrating how an intervention can be integrated into routine care in real-world contexts. Explanatory trials test hypotheses regarding the cause-effect relationship within idealised 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 research can be a valuable source of information to make decisions in the healthcare context.
The PRECIS-2 tool scores an RCT on 9 domains, ranging from 1 to 5 (very pragmatist). In this study, the recruitment, organisation, flexibility: delivery, flexible adherence and follow-up domains were awarded high scores, however the primary outcome and the procedure for missing data fell below the limit of practicality. This suggests that a trial can be designed with good practical features, but without compromising its quality.
It is hard to determine the level of pragmatism within a specific trial because pragmatism does not have a binary characteristic. Certain aspects of a study can be more pragmatic than other. A trial's 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 placebo-controlled or conducted prior to licensing. The majority of them were single-center. This means that they are not very close to usual practice and are only pragmatic in the event that their sponsors are supportive of the lack of blinding in such trials.
A common aspect of pragmatic research is that researchers try to make their findings more relevant by studying subgroups of the trial sample. This can lead to imbalanced analyses and less statistical power. This increases the possibility of missing or misdetecting differences in the primary outcomes. This was the case in the meta-analysis of pragmatic trials because secondary outcomes were not adjusted for covariates that differed at baseline.
Additionally practical trials can present challenges in the collection and interpretation of safety data. This is because adverse events are generally reported by the 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, and ideally by using national registry databases instead of relying on participants to report adverse events in the trial's own database.
Results
While the definition of pragmatism does not require that all trials are 100 100% pragmatic, there are some advantages of including pragmatic elements in clinical trials. These include:
Increased sensitivity to real-world issues which reduces cost and size of the study and allowing the study results to be faster transferred into real-world clinical practice (by including routine patients). However, pragmatic studies can also have disadvantages. For example, the right kind of heterogeneity can allow the trial to apply its results to different patients and settings; however, the wrong type of heterogeneity can reduce assay sensitivity, and thus lessen the ability of a trial to detect even minor effects of treatment.
Many studies have attempted classify pragmatic trials using different definitions and scoring methods. Schwartz and Lellouch1 created a framework for distinguishing between explanation-based trials that support a physiological or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic trials that help in the choice of appropriate therapies in clinical practice. The framework was comprised of nine domains that were scored on a 1-5 scale with 1 being more explanatory while 5 being more pragmatic. The domains included recruitment and setting up, the delivery of intervention, flex adhering to the program and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 was an adapted version of the PRECIS tool3 that was based on the same scale and domains. Koppenaal and colleagues10 developed an adaptation to this assessment dubbed the Pragmascope that was easier to use in systematic reviews. They discovered that pragmatic systematic reviews had higher average scores across all domains, with lower scores in the primary analysis domain.
The difference in the analysis domain that is primary could be due to the fact that the majority of pragmatic trials analyse their data in the intention to treat way however some explanation trials do not. The overall score was lower for pragmatic systematic reviews when the domains on organisation, flexible delivery, and follow-up were combined.
It is important to remember that a study that is pragmatic does not necessarily mean a low-quality study. In fact, there are an increasing number of clinical trials that employ the word 'pragmatic,' either in their abstract or title (as defined by MEDLINE, but that is neither sensitive nor precise). These terms may signal an increased appreciation of pragmatism in titles and abstracts, but it's not clear whether this is evident in the content.
Conclusions
As the value of real-world evidence becomes increasingly popular and pragmatic trials have gained momentum in research. They are randomized trials that evaluate real-world alternatives to experimental treatments in development. They involve patient populations more closely resembling those treated in regular care. This approach could help overcome the limitations of observational studies which include the biases associated with reliance on volunteers and the lack of availability and coding variability in national registry systems.
Other advantages of pragmatic trials include the possibility of using existing data sources, and a higher likelihood of detecting meaningful changes than traditional trials. However, they may be prone to limitations that compromise their validity and generalizability. For example, participation rates in some trials may be lower than expected due to the healthy-volunteer effect as well as incentives to pay or compete for participants from other research studies (e.g., industry trials). A lot of pragmatic trials are limited by the need to recruit participants quickly. Some pragmatic trials also lack controls to ensure that the observed differences aren't due to biases that occur during the trial.
The authors of the Pragmatic Free Trial Meta identified RCTs published from 2022 to 2022 that self-described themselves as pragmatic. They assessed pragmatism using the PRECIS-2 tool, which includes the eligibility criteria for domains as well as recruitment, flexibility in adherence to interventions and follow-up. They discovered that 14 of the trials scored highly or pragmatic practical (i.e., scoring 5 or higher) in any one or more of these domains and that the majority were single-center.
Trials with high pragmatism scores tend to have more criteria for eligibility than conventional RCTs. They also contain populations from various hospitals. The authors argue that these characteristics could make pragmatic trials more effective and useful for everyday practice, but they do not guarantee that a trial conducted in a pragmatic manner is free from bias. The pragmatism principle is not a fixed attribute and a test that doesn't have all the characteristics of an explanatory study could still yield valid and useful outcomes.
