A pragmatic-explanatory continuum indicator summary (PRECIS): a tool to help trial designers

Kevin E. Thorpe, Merrick Zwarenstein, Andy Oxman, Shaun Treweek, Curt D. Furberg, Douglas G. Altman, Sean Tunis, Eduardo Bergel, I. Harvey, David J. Magid,

Canadian Medical Association Journal · 2009 · 416 citations · 9 references

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Randomized trials have traditionally been broadly categorized as either an effectiveness trial or an efficacy trial, although we prefer the terms “pragmatic” and “explanatory.” Schwartz and Lellouch described these 2 approaches toward clinical trials in 1967. [1][1] These authors coined the

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