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Determining sample size for progression criteria for pragmatic pilot RCTs: The Hypothesis test Strikes Back!

2021-01-11

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background </bold>The current CONSORT guidelines for reporting pilot trials do not recommend hypothesis testing of clinical outcomes on the basis that a pilot trial is under-powered to detect such differences and this is the aim of the main trial. It states that primary evaluation should focus on descriptive analysis of feasibility/process outcomes (e.g. recruitment, adherence, tr...

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Literature Corpus work: 36d14afb-1297-586a-a594-a4f9ea79fca8
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-24939/v3

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