Pragmatic Free Trial Meta
Pragmatic Free Trail Meta is an open data platform that enables research into pragmatic trials. It shares clean trial data and ratings using PRECIS-2 permitting multiple and varied meta-epidemiological studies to examine the effects of treatment across trials with different levels of pragmatism and other design features.
Background
Pragmatic trials provide evidence from the real world that can be used to make clinical decisions. The term "pragmatic" however, is a word that is often used in contradiction and its definition and measurement require further clarification. Pragmatic trials are designed to inform clinical practices and policy choices, rather than prove a physiological or clinical hypothesis. A pragmatic study should strive to be as close as it is to real-world clinical practices which include the recruiting participants, setting, design, implementation and delivery of interventions, determination and analysis results, as well as primary analyses. This is a significant difference between explanation-based trials, as described by Schwartz & Lellouch1 that are designed to confirm the hypothesis in a more thorough manner.
Truely pragmatic trials should not blind participants or the clinicians. This can lead to an overestimation of the effects of treatment. Pragmatic trials should also seek to enroll patients from a wide range of health care settings to ensure that their findings can be compared to the real world.
Furthermore studies that are pragmatic should focus on outcomes that are important to patients, such as quality of life or functional recovery. This is particularly important in trials that involve invasive procedures or those with potential dangerous adverse events. The CRASH trial29 compared a two-page report with an electronic monitoring system for patients in hospitals with chronic heart failure. The trial with a catheter, on the other hand was based on symptomatic catheter-related urinary tract infection as its primary outcome.
In addition to these aspects pragmatic trials should reduce the trial's procedures and requirements for data collection to reduce costs. Additionally pragmatic trials should strive to make their results as applicable to real-world clinical practice as possible by making sure that their primary analysis is based on the intention-to-treat method (as described in CONSORT extensions for pragmatic trials).
Many RCTs which do not meet the criteria for pragmatism but contain features contrary to pragmatism have been published in journals of various types and incorrectly labeled pragmatic. This can lead to false claims of pragmatism and the usage of the term should be standardized. The development of a PRECIS-2 tool that provides an objective and standardized evaluation of pragmatic aspects is a good start.
Methods
In a practical trial it is the intention to inform policy or clinical decisions by demonstrating how the intervention can be integrated into everyday routine care. This is distinct from explanation trials that test hypotheses regarding the causal-effect relationship in idealized conditions. In this way, pragmatic trials may have a lower internal validity than studies that explain and are more susceptible to biases in their design as well as analysis and conduct. Despite their limitations, pragmatic studies can provide valuable information to make decisions in the context of healthcare.
The PRECIS-2 tool scores an RCT on 9 domains, ranging between 1 and 5 (very pragmatist). In this study, the recruitment, organisation, flexibility: delivery, flexible adherence and follow-up domains received high scores, however, the primary outcome and the procedure for missing data were not at the limit of practicality. This suggests that it is possible to design a trial with good pragmatic features without damaging the quality of its outcomes.
It is difficult to determine the degree of pragmatism within a specific trial since pragmatism doesn't have a single characteristic. Certain aspects of a research study can be more pragmatic than others. Moreover, protocol or logistic modifications during the course of an experiment can alter its pragmatism score. Koppenaal and colleagues found that 36% of the 89 pragmatic studies were placebo-controlled or conducted prior to licensing. Most were also single-center. They are not in line with the standard practice, and can only be called pragmatic if the sponsors agree that such trials aren't blinded.
Furthermore, a common feature of pragmatic trials is that the researchers attempt to make their findings more relevant by analyzing subgroups of the sample. However, this often leads to unbalanced results and lower statistical power, which increases the chance of not or incorrectly detecting differences in the primary outcome. In the instance of the pragmatic trials included in this meta-analysis, this was a significant problem since the secondary outcomes were not adjusted for the differences in baseline covariates.
Additionally practical trials can present challenges 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 reporting errors, delays, or coding variations. It is therefore important to enhance the quality of outcomes for these trials, and ideally by using national registry databases instead of relying on participants to report adverse events on a trial's own database.
Results
Although the definition of pragmatism may not require that clinical trials be 100% pragmatist there are benefits when incorporating pragmatic components into trials. These include:
By incorporating routine patients, the trial results can be more quickly translated into clinical practice. However, pragmatic studies can also have disadvantages. The right kind of heterogeneity, like, can help a study generalise its findings to many different patients or settings. However the wrong kind of heterogeneity can decrease the sensitivity of the test, and therefore reduce a trial's power to detect even minor effects of treatment.
A number of studies have attempted to categorize pragmatic trials with a variety of definitions and scoring systems. Schwartz and Lellouch1 have developed a framework that can distinguish between explanatory studies that prove the physiological hypothesis or clinical hypothesis and pragmatic studies that guide the selection of appropriate therapies in the real-world clinical practice. The framework was comprised of nine domains evaluated on a scale of 1-5, with 1 being more explanatory while 5 was more practical. The domains included recruitment setting, setting, intervention delivery with flexibility, follow-up and primary analysis.
The original PRECIS tool3 featured similar domains and an assessment scale ranging from 1 to 5. Koppenaal et al10 created an adaptation to this assessment dubbed the Pragmascope which was more user-friendly to use in systematic reviews. They discovered that pragmatic reviews scored higher across all domains, however they scored lower in the primary analysis domain.
This difference in the primary analysis domain could be explained by the fact that most pragmatic trials analyse their data in the intention to treat way, whereas some explanatory trials do not. The overall score for systematic reviews that were pragmatic was lower when the domains of organization, flexible delivery, and following-up were combined.
It is important to note that a pragmatic trial does not necessarily mean a low-quality trial, and there is an increasing number of clinical trials (as defined by MEDLINE search,
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Conclusions
In recent years, pragmatic trials have been becoming more popular in research as the value of real world evidence is increasingly recognized. They are clinical trials that are randomized which compare real-world treatment options instead of experimental treatments in development, they have patient populations that more closely mirror those treated in routine care, they use comparators that are used in routine practice (e.g., existing drugs) and depend on participants' self-reports of outcomes. This approach can overcome the limitations of observational research, for example, the biases that come with the use of volunteers and the limited availability and codes that vary in national registers.
Pragmatic trials also have advantages, including the ability to draw on existing data sources, and a greater likelihood of detecting meaningful distinctions from traditional trials. However, these tests could be prone to limitations that undermine their reliability and generalizability. Participation rates in some trials could be lower than expected due to the healthy-volunteering effect, financial incentives or competition from other research studies. Many pragmatic trials are also limited by the need to enroll participants on time. Some pragmatic trials also lack controls to ensure that any 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 up to 2022. The PRECIS-2 tool was used to evaluate the degree of pragmatism. It covers areas like eligibility criteria and flexibility in recruitment, adherence to intervention, and follow-up. They discovered that 14 of the trials scored highly or pragmatic practical (i.e. scoring 5 or more) in one or more of these domains and that the majority were single-center.
Trials that have high pragmatism scores tend to have broader criteria for eligibility than conventional RCTs. They also include populations from various hospitals. The authors argue that these characteristics could make the pragmatic trials more relevant and useful for
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