Why so few randomized trials in pediatric critical care medicine? Ask the trialists

AG Randolph - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2017 - journals.lww.com
3. Halpern SD, Randolph AG, Angus DC: No child left behind: Enrolling children and adults
simultaneously in critical care randomized trials. Crit Care Med 2009; 37: 2638–2641 4 …

High-quality randomized controlled trials in pediatric critical care: a survey of barriers and facilitators

M Duffett, K Choong, J Foster, M Meade… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: High-quality, adequately powered, randomized controlled trials are needed to
inform the care of critically ill children. Unfortunately, such evidence is not always available …

Global paediatric critical care research: mind the gaps

LJ Schlapbach, B Gelbart, M Festa… - Intensive Care …, 2019 - Springer
In their recent editorial [1], Kanthimathinathan and Peters summarize progress made in
paediatric intensive care research during 2018 and report on the number of active paediatric …

Randomized Trials to Reduce Clinical Uncertainty: Gold Standard or Fool's Gold?

MJ Peters, P Ramnarayan - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2024 - journals.lww.com
The late Professor Brian Kavanagh's “future-gazing” closing plenary lecture at the 2018
World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies in Singapore was entitled …

Advancing randomized controlled trials in pediatric critical care: The perspectives of trialists

M Duffett, M Swinton, M Brouwers… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Clinical research is a complex scientific and social enterprise. Our objective was
to identify strategies that pediatric critical care trialists consider acceptable, feasible, and …

Conducting clinical trials in pediatrics

D Macrae - Critical care medicine, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Conducting clinical trials in pediatric critical care patients are necessary both to determine
the value of new treatment strategies and to improve clinical outcomes. However, there are …

The impact of clinical trials conducted by research networks in pediatric critical care

K Choong, M Duffett, DJ Cook… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Research networks in adult and neonatal critical care have demonstrated
collaborative and successful execution of clinical trials. Such networks appear to have been …

Randomized clinical trials in pediatric critical care: Rarely done but desperately needed

AG Randolph, J Lacroix - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2002 - journals.lww.com
Objective To review the benefits and challenges of using the randomized, controlled trial
(RCT) study design to evaluate preventive and therapeutic interventions in pediatric critical …

Pragmatic trials in critically ill children are CATCHing on

AG Randolph - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
The many barriers impeding performance of clinical trials in critically ill children1 have
resulted in a paucity of evidence guiding bedside practice. 2 Children admitted to a …

The intensive care medicine clinical research agenda in paediatrics

MJ Peters, A Argent, M Festa, S Leteurtre, J Piva… - Intensive Care …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background Intensive Care Medicine set us the task of outlining a global clinical
research agenda for paediatric intensive care (PIC). In line with the clinical focus of this …