When is a randomised controlled trial health equity relevant? Development and validation of a conceptual framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Randomised controlled trials can provide evidence relevant to assessing the equity impact of an intervention, but such information is often poorly reported. We describe a conceptual framework to identify health equity-relevant randomised trials with the aim of improving the design and reporting of such trials.

Methods

An interdisciplinary and international research team engaged in an iterative consensus building process to develop and refine the conceptual framework via face-to-face meetings, teleconferences and email correspondence, including findings from a validation exercise whereby two independent reviewers used the emerging framework to classify a sample of randomised trials.

Results

A randomised trial can usefully be classified as 'health equity rele

SUBMITTER: Jull J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623521 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature