Rating of Included Trials on the Efficacy-Effectiveness Spectrum: development of a new tool for systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Randomized trials may be designed to provide evidence more strongly related to efficacy or effectiveness of an intervention. When systematic reviews are used to inform clinical or policy decisions, it is important to know the efficacy-effectiveness nature of the included trials. The objective of this study was to develop a tool to characterize randomized trials included in a systematic review on an efficacy-effectiveness continuum.

Methods

We extracted rating domains and descriptors from existing tools and used a modified Delphi procedure to condense the domains and develop a new tool. The feasibility and interrater reliability of the tool was tested on trials from four systematic reviews.

Results

The Rating of Included Trials on the Efficacy-

SUBMITTER: Wieland LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5441969 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature