Improving the efficiency of trials using innovative pilot designs: the next phase in the conduct and reporting of pilot and feasibility studies

Abstract With continuously increasing costs of conducting trials, use of innovative approaches—such as pragmatic trials, registry-based randomised trials, adaptive trials, personalised medicine trials, platform trials, and basket trials—to the design and conduct of clinical trials has been advocated...

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Main Authors: Lehana Thabane, Gillian Lancaster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:Pilot and Feasibility Studies
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40814-017-0159-2