Understanding implementability in clinical trials: a pragmatic review and concept map.
BackgroundThe translation of evidence from clinical trials into practice is complex. One approach to facilitating this translation is to consider the 'implementability' of trials as they are designed and conducted.
Australian Clinical Trials Alliance Reference Group on Impact and Implementation of CTN Trials +5 more
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Does it matter if clinicians recruiting for a trial don't understand what the trial is really about? Qualitative study of surgeons' experiences of participation in a pragmatic multi-centre RCT [PDF]
Background Qualitative methods are increasingly used to study the process of clinical trials and patients understanding of the rationale for trials, randomisation and reasons for taking part or refusing.
Snowdon, Claire +25 more
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Managing clinical trials. [PDF]
Managing clinical trials, of whatever size and complexity, requires efficient trial management. Trials fail because tried and tested systems handed down through apprenticeships have not been documented, evaluated or published to guide new trialists ...
Barbara Farrell +11 more
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Reducing the environmental impact of trials: a comparison of the carbon footprint of the CRASH-1 and CRASH-2 clinical trials. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: All sectors of the economy, including the health research sector, must reduce their carbon emissions. The UK National Institute for Health Research has recently prepared guidelines on how to minimize the carbon footprint of research.
Subaiya, Saleena +8 more
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Contamination in trials of educational interventions [PDF]
Objectives: To consider the effects of contamination on the magnitude and statistical significance (or precision) of the estimated effect of an educational intervention, to investigate the mechanisms of contamination, and to consider how contamination ...
Keogh-Brown, M.R. +12 more
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Communication about children's clinical trials as observed and experienced: qualitative study of parents and practitioners. [PDF]
Recruiting children to clinical trials is perceived to be challenging. To identify ways to optimise recruitment and its conduct, we compared how parents and practitioners described their experiences of recruitment to clinical ...
Shilling, V +30 more
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The efficacy-effectiveness distinction in trials of alcohol brief intervention. [PDF]
Three recent sets of null findings from trials of alcohol brief intervention (BI) have been disappointing to those who wish to see a reduction in alcohol-related harm through the widespread dissemination of BI.
Nick Heather, Heather, Nick
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The added value of ordinal analysis in clinical trials: an example in traumatic brain injury. [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: In clinical trials, ordinal outcome measures are often dichotomized into two categories. In traumatic brain injury (TBI) the 5-point Glasgow outcome scale (GOS) is collapsed into unfavourable versus favourable outcome.
Perel, P +37 more
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Pragmatic Problems With Clinical Equipoise
It is widely accepted that if one is to follow the ethical tenets of clinical equipoise, phase III controlled clinical trials must be designed pragmatically, to measure effectiveness rather than efficacy.
Kowalski, Charles J
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Paying clinicians to join clinical trials : a review of guidelines and interview study of trialists [PDF]
Background: The motivations of clinicians to participate in clinical trials have been little studied. This project explored the potential role of payment for participation in publicly funded clinical trials in the UK.
Raftery James +7 more
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