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Rollout trial designs in implementation research are often necessary and sometimes preferred

Implementation Science
Background Rollout designs, which include stepped wedge designs, are defined by staggered implementation of new or alternative programs or services. Critiques of stepped wedge and other rollout designs have raised concerns regarding the confounding of ...
Gregory E. Simon, Bryan R. Garner, Justin D. Smith, Peter A. Wyman, Theresa E. Matson, Lia Chin-Purcell, Ian Cero, Wouter Vermeer, Kimberly A. Johnson, Guillermo Prado, C. Hendricks Brown   +10 more
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Ethnolinguistic concordance and the receipt of postpartum IUD counseling services in Sri Lanka. [PDF]

, 2018
CONTEXT: Ethnic and linguistic concordance are important dimensions of the patient-physician relationship, and are linked to health care disparities.
Canning, David, de Silva, Ranjith, Karra, Mahesh, Pearson, Erin, Samarasekera, Arnjali, Shah, Iqbal   +5 more
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Power Analysis for Stepped Wedge Trials with Two Treatments [PDF]

, 2020
AbstractStepped wedge designs (SWDs) are designs for cluster randomized trials that feature staggered, unidirectional cross-over, typically from a control to a treatment condition. Existing literature on statistical power for SWDs primarily focuses on designs with a single treatment.
Sundin, Phillip T., Crespi, Catherine M.
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Randomised controlled trials of complex interventions and large-scale transformation of services [PDF]

, 2016
Complex interventions and large-scale transformations of services are necessary to meet the health-care challenges of the 21st century. However, the evaluation of these types of interventions is challenging and requires methodological development ...
Barratt, Helen, Bower, Peter, Campbell, Marion, Moore, Laurence, Zwarenstein, Merrick   +4 more
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The current use of feasibility studies in the assessment of feasibility for stepped-wedge cluster randomised trials: a systematic review

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2019
Background Stepped-wedge cluster randomised trials (SW-CRTs) are a pragmatic trial design, providing an unprecedented opportunity to increase the robustness of evidence underpinning implementation and quality improvement interventions.
Caroline A. Kristunas, Karla Hemming, Helen Eborall, Sandra Eldridge, Laura J. Gray   +4 more
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Evaluation of multiple interventions using a stepped wedge design [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Stepped wedge cluster randomized trials are a class of unidirectional crossover studies that have historically been limited to evaluating a single intervention.
Hughes, James, Li, Lingyu, Lyons, Vivian H, Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali   +3 more
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Provision of medical supply kits to improve quality of antenatal care in Mozambique: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial [PDF]

, 2018
Background High levels of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity remain a daunting reality in many low-income countries. Several interventions delivered during antenatal care have been shown to improve maternal and newborn outcomes, but stockouts ...
Aleman, Alicia, Althabe, Fernando, Bergel, Eduardo, Betrán, Ana Pilar, Biza, Adriano, Carbonell, Alicia, Chavane, Leonardo, Colomar, Mercedes, Crahay, Beatrice, Delvaux, Therese, Dique Ali, Ussumane, Fersurela, Lucio, Geelhoed, Diederike, Griffin, Sally, Gülmezoglu, A Metin, Jille-Taas, Ingeborg, Langa, Célio, Malapende, Celsa Regina, Melo, Armando, Merialdi, Mario, Mondlane, Santos, Nguyen, My Huong, Osman, Nafissa Bique, Requejo, Jennifer, Temmerman, Marleen, Timbe, Geraldo   +25 more
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The impact of the Trauma Triage App on pre-hospital trauma triage: design and protocol of the stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized TESLA trial

Diagnostic and Prognostic Research, 2020
Background Field triage of trauma patients is crucial to get the right patient to the right hospital within a particular time frame. Minimization of undertriage, overtriage, and interhospital transfer rates could substantially reduce mortality rates ...
Rogier van der Sluijs, Audrey A. A. Fiddelers, Job F. Waalwijk, Johannes B. Reitsma, Miranda J. Dirx, Dennis den Hartog, Silvia M. A. A. Evers, J. Carel Goslings, W. Margreet Hoogeveen, Koen W. Lansink, Luke P. H. Leenen, Mark van Heijl, Martijn Poeze   +12 more
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Ethical Challenges of Randomized Violence Intervention Trials: Examining the SHARE intervention in Rakai, Uganda. [PDF]

, 2016
ObjectiveWe identify complexities encountered, including unanticipated crossover between trial arms and inadequate 'standard of care' violence services, during a cluster randomized trial (CRT) of a community-level intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV ...
Nalugoda, Fred, Namatovu, Fredinah, Paul, Amy, Ssekubugu, Robert, Wagman, Jennifer A   +4 more
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Methodological progress note: Stepped‐wedge cluster randomized trial design

Journal of Hospital Medicine
Hospitalists are often involved in quality and research efforts to improve care delivery in the inpatient setting.1 To assess the effectiveness of these efforts, new healthcare delivery initiatives may be evaluated by comparing clinical outcomes between patients who received the intervention and those who received usual care, which is commonly used as ...
Alina G. Burek, Amanda Ullman, David C. Brousseau   +2 more
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