CHARTing a Path to Pragmatic Tobacco Treatment Research.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

It is important to consider the degree to which studies are explanatory versus pragmatic to understand the implications of their findings for patients, healthcare professionals, and policymakers. Pragmatic trials test the effectiveness of interventions in real-world conditions; explanatory trials test for efficacy under ideal conditions. The Consortium of Hospitals Advancing Research on Tobacco (CHART) is a network of seven NIH-funded trials designed to identify effective programs that can be widely implemented in routine clinical practice.

Methods

A cross-sectional analysis of CHART trial study designs was conducted to place each study on the pragmatic-explanatory continuum. After reliability training, six raters independently scored each CHART study according

SUBMITTER: Cruvinel E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5919279 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature