Methodological issues in pragmatic trials of complex interventions in primary care
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Methodological issues in pragmatic trials of complex interventions in primary care.
distinction in trial design is made between explanatory (or efficacy) and pragmatic (or effectiveness) trials. 1 These terms, originally coined by Schwartz and Lellouch in 1967, are used to describe trials that either test causal research hypotheses to determine whether an intervention works in tightly controlled conditions to achieve optimal efficacy and/or to understand the key mechanism of a...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of General Practice
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0960-1643,1478-5242
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp12x616238