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Pragmatic clinical trials embedded in healthcare systems: generalizable lessons from the NIH Collaboratory

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology, September 2017
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Title
Pragmatic clinical trials embedded in healthcare systems: generalizable lessons from the NIH Collaboratory
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BMC Medical Research Methodology, September 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12874-017-0420-7
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Kevin P. Weinfurt, Adrian F. Hernandez, Gloria D. Coronado, Lynn L. DeBar, Laura M. Dember, Beverly B. Green, Patrick J. Heagerty, Susan S. Huang, Kathryn T. James, Jeffrey G. Jarvik, Eric B. Larson, Vincent Mor, Richard Platt, Gary E. Rosenthal, Edward J. Septimus, Gregory E. Simon, Karen L. Staman, Jeremy Sugarman, Miguel Vazquez, Douglas Zatzick, Lesley H. Curtis

Abstract

The clinical research enterprise is not producing the evidence decision makers arguably need in a timely and cost effective manner; research currently involves the use of labor-intensive parallel systems that are separate from clinical care. The emergence of pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) poses a possible solution: these large-scale trials are embedded within routine clinical care and often involve cluster randomization of hospitals, clinics, primary care providers, etc. Interventions can be implemented by health system personnel through usual communication channels and quality improvement infrastructure, and data collected as part of routine clinical care. However, experience with these trials is nascent and best practices regarding design operational, analytic, and reporting methodologies are undeveloped. To strengthen the national capacity to implement cost-effective, large-scale PCTs, the Common Fund of the National Institutes of Health created the Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory (Collaboratory) to support the design, execution, and dissemination of a series of demonstration projects using a pragmatic research design. In this article, we will describe the Collaboratory, highlight some of the challenges encountered and solutions developed thus far, and discuss remaining barriers and opportunities for large-scale evidence generation using PCTs. A planning phase is critical, and even with careful planning, new challenges arise during execution; comparisons between arms can be complicated by unanticipated changes. Early and ongoing engagement with both health care system leaders and front-line clinicians is critical for success. There is also marked uncertainty when applying existing ethical and regulatory frameworks to PCTS, and using existing electronic health records for data capture adds complexity.

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Unknown 139 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 14%
Researcher 19 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 9%
Other 10 7%
Student > Bachelor 6 4%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 51 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 24%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 9%
Social Sciences 8 6%
Engineering 5 4%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 22 16%
Unknown 55 40%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 September 2023.
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