Surgeons' and methodologists' perceptions of utilising an expertise-based randomised controlled trial design: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are widely recognised to be the most rigorous way to test new and emerging clinical interventions. When the interventions under study are two different surgical procedures, however, surgeons are required to be trained and sufficiently proficient in the different surgical approaches to take part in such a trial. It is often the case that even where surgeons can perform both trial surgical procedures, they have a preference and/or have more expertise in one of the procedures. The expertise-based trial design, where participating surgeons only provide the procedure in which they have appropriate expertise, has been proposed to overcome this problem. When expertise-based designs should be best used remains unclear; such approaches may be m

SUBMITTER: Cook JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6127897 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature