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Progression from external pilot to definitive randomised controlled trial: a methodological review of progression criteria reporting
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Objectives Prespecified progression criteria can inform the decision to progress from an external randomised pilot trial to a definitive randomised controlled trial. We assessed the characteristics of progression criteria reported in external randomised pilot trial protocols and results publications, including whether progression criteria were specified a priori and mentioned in prepublication peer reviewer reports. Study design Methodological review. Methods We searched four journals throu...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048178
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- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Open Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 6
- Article number:
- e048178
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-06-08
- DOI:
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2044-6055
- Pmid:
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34183348
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- English
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1184401
- Local pid:
- pubs:1184401
- Deposit date:
- 2021-07-08
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- Mellor et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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