A review of pragmatic trials found a high degree of diversity in design and scope, deficiencies in reporting and trial registry data, and poor indexing

SG Nicholls, K Carroll, SP Hey, M Zwarenstein… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective We established a large database of trials to serve as a resource for future
methodological and ethical analyses. Here, we use meta-data to describe the broad …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of the characteristics and the degree of pragmatism exhibited by pragmatic-labelled trials of antineoplastic treatments

R Saesen, K Depreytere, K Krupianskaya… - BMC Medical Research …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) are designed to reflect how an
investigational treatment would be applied in clinical practice. As such, unlike their …

The design can limit PRECIS-2 retrospective assessment of the clinical trial explanatory/pragmatic features

R Dal-Ré, A de Boer, SK James - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2020 - jclinepi.com
The pragmatic-explanatory continuum indicator summary (PRECIS-2) tool was originally
developed to help investigators to design their trials based on the intended purposes [1]. If …

The importance of decision intent within descriptions of pragmatic trials

SG Nicholls, M Zwarenstein, SP Hey… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective It is now more than 50 years since the concepts of explanatory and pragmatic
attitudes toward trials were first discussed by Schwartz and Lellouch in their influential 1967 …

The PRECIS-2 tool seems not to be useful to discriminate the degree of pragmatism of medicine masked trials from that of open-label trials

R Dal-Ré - European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2021 - Springer
Purpose To assess, with all available trial information, whether the assessment of the
PRECIS-2 nine domains could provide a clear distinction between medicine masked …

[HTML][HTML] Using PRECIS-2 in Chinese herbal medicine randomized controlled trials for irritable bowel syndrome: A methodological exploration based on literature

M Luo, Y Wang, J Huang, Y Li, W Li, H Li, Z Liu… - Integrative Medicine …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The pragmatism levels of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) mean how similar
the interventions delivered in the trial setting match those in the setting where the results will …

Articles provided insufficient information to conduct an appropriate retrospective assessment of the pragmatic/explanatory features of medicine trials with the PRECIS …

R Dal-Ré - European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2020 - Springer
Purpose To assess whether, in the retrospective assessment of the pragmatic/explanatory
features of pragmatic randomized controlled trials (pRCTs), the nine PRECIS-2 domain …

Generalizability of randomized controlled trials in primary health care: Applying the PRECIS‐2 tool on published protocols

E Papagiannopoulou, E Laiou, C Tatsi… - Journal of Evaluation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rationale Pragmatic design may facilitate the generalizability of effectiveness of randomized
controlled trials (RCTs) in primary health care (PHC). Aims and Objectives The aim of this …

Pragmatic trials, blinding, placebos, and the usefulness of the PRECIS-2 tool

R Dal-Ré - European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2021 - Springer
Zwarenstein and Howie and I have fundamental different approaches and understanding on
the usefulness of the PRECIS-2 tool when retrospectively assessing the degree of …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectivas educativas e investigativas del pragmatismo en sociedades democráticas

JS Diago Camacho, P Páramo - Praxis & Saber, 2023 - scielo.org.co
El artículo presenta los resultados de una revisión sistemática de textos académicos
publicados entre 2012 y 2021, que integran los conceptos investigación, educación y …