Clinician-trialist rounds: 17. Mind your explanatory and pragmatic attitudes! Part 2: How?

Clinical Trials

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 633-636

  Sackett, David L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONSENSUS; COPING BEHAVIOR; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SMOKING CESSATION; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 84881039892     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774513491339     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Thorpe KE, Zwarenstein M, Oxman AD, et al. A Pragmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS): A tool to help trial designers. J Clin Epidemiol. 2009 ; 62: 464-75
2. Effects of treatment on morbidity in hypertension: Results in patients with diastolic blood pressures averaging 115 through 129 mm Hg. JAMA. 1967 ; 202: 116-22
3. Sackett DL. Clinician-trialist rounds: 16. Mind your explanatory and pragmatic attitudes! Part 1: What?. Clin Trials. in press ;:
4. Kaczorowski J, Chambers LW, Dolovich L, et al. Improving cardiovascular health at population level: 39 community cluster randomized trial of Cardiovascular Health Awareness Program (CHAP). BMJ. 2011 ; 342: d442
5. Tosh G, Soares-Weiser K, Adams CE. Pragmatic vs. explanatory trials: The Pragmascope tool to help measure differences in protocols of mental health randomized controlled trials. Dialogues Clin Neurosci. 2011 ; 13: 209-15
6. Koppenaal T, Linmans J, Knottnerus JA, Spigt M. Pragmatic vs. explanatory: An adaptation of the PRECIS tool helps to judge the applicability of systematic reviews for daily practice. J Clin Epidemiol. 2011 ; 64: 1095-101
7. Bratton DJ, Nunn AJ. Alternative approaches to tuberculosis treatment evaluation: The role of pragmatic trials. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2011 ; 15: 440-46
8. Selby P, Brosky G, Oh PI, Raymond V, Ranger S. How pragmatic or explanatory is the randomized, controlled trial? The application and enhancement of the PRECIS tool to the evaluation of a smoking cessation trial. BMC Med Res Methodol. 2012 ; 12: 101
9. Bratton DJ, Nunn AJ, Wojnarowska F, et al. The value of the pragmatic-explanatory continuum indicator summary wheel in an ongoing study: The bullous pemphigoid steroids and tetracyclines study. Trials. 2012 ; 13: 50
10. Riddle DL, Johnson RE, Jensen MP, et al. The Pragmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS) instrument was useful for refining a randomized trial design: Experiences from an investigative team. J Clin Epidemiol. 2010 ; 63: 1271-75
11. Kent DM, Kitsios G. Commentary. Against pragmatism: On efficacy, effectiveness and the real world. Trials. 2009 ; 10: 48