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- Juszczak, Edmund, et al.
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Introducing the CONsolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) statement for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) using cohorts and routinely collected health data
- 2019
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Ingår i: Trials. - : BMC. - 1745-6215. ; 20:Suppl. 1, s. 131-131
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Background: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are increasingly being conducted using existing sources of data, such as cohorts, administrative databases, disease registries and electronic health records. RCTs conducted using existing data sources require additional information to be reported. This reporting guideline is an extension of the 2010 version of the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statement for RCTs using cohorts and routinely collected health data.Methods: A long-list of potential items for the checklist was identified through two methods: firstly, modifications to the current CONSORT checklist were generated using existing reporting guidelines, including the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) and REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely-collected health Data (RECORD) statements. Secondly, ascoping review of RCTs conducted in the last decade using cohorts and routinely collected health data facilitated the modification and identification of other potential items. Using the long-list, a three-stage Delphi exercise was conducted to assess the importance of each item for inclusion in the final extension checklist, which was finalised at a face-to-face meeting of experts.Results: A long-list of 27 items was created and 125 experts registered for the three-round Delphi exercise (92, 77 and 62 experts participated in each round respectively). Consensus was reached on 21 out of 27 items. The results of the Delphi exercise informed a face-to-face consensus meeting in May 2019; core items to be included in the extension checklist were finalised at this meeting. Corresponding explanations of extensions and new items with examples of good reporting were developed subsequently.Conclusion: The guideline checklist can facilitate transparent reporting of RCTs using cohorts and routinely collected health data, to assist evaluations of rigour and reproducibility, enhance understanding of the methodology, and make the results more useful for clinicians, journal editors, reviewers, guideline authors, and funders.
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- Relton, Clare, et al.
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Review of use of the Trials within Cohorts (TwiCs) design approach
- 2019
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Ingår i: Trials. - : BMC. - 1745-6215. ; 20:Suppl. 1, s. 112-113
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Introduction: Trials within Cohorts (TwiCs) is an innovative approach to the design and conduct of multiple randomised controlled trials (RCTs) (Relton et al, 2010). This approach utilises an observational cohort to recruit trial populations and obtain short and longer term outcomes. We describe what is currently known about the use of this design approach.Methods: An extension of the 2010 Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) Statements for RCTs using cohorts and/or routinely collected health data is in development, supported by a scoping review that includes publications of methods or reports ofprotocols or results from RCTs using cohorts, registries, electronic health records and administrative databases. Data sources for this scoping review included Medline and Cochrane Methodology Register and were limited to English language.This review of use of the TwiCs approach uses publications of methods or reports of protocols or results from RCTs that use cohorts to recruit identified in the scoping review. This is supplemented with information from topic experts.We report: (i) types of cohorts (setting, population, condition/ disease area), (ii) how the cohorts are utilised (identifying potential trial participants, recruitment, randomisation, process and outcome data collection including bespoke and/or routine health record data, types of trials conducted/ planned), (iii) approaches to informed consent, e.g. staged approach (Young-Afat et al, 2016), and (iv) any purported and/or real study design (in)efficiencies.Timing of Potential Results: Early results indicate 75+ eligible full text articles, including 23 trial protocols and 23 articles reporting the results of trials using cohorts. Full results will be available in August 2019 and presented at the conference.Potential Relevance and Impact: Standard approaches to trial design are often costly and frequently fail to recruit sufficiently large or representative samples. This review will help provide information on the use and potential (in)efficiency of the TwiCs approach
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