Current use of routinely collected health data to complement randomized controlled trials: a meta-epidemiological survey

LG Hemkens, DG Contopoulos-Ioannidis… - … Open Access Journal, 2016 - cmajopen.ca
Background: Studies that use routinely collected health data (RCD studies) are advocated to
complement evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for comparative …

Agreement of treatment effects for mortality from routinely collected data and subsequent randomized trials: meta-epidemiological survey

LG Hemkens, DG Contopoulos-Ioannidis… - bmj, 2016 - bmj.com
Objective To assess differences in estimated treatment effects for mortality between
observational studies with routinely collected health data (RCD; that are published before …

[HTML][HTML] Routinely collected data for randomized trials: promises, barriers, and implications

KA Mc Cord, R Al-Shahi Salman, S Treweek… - Trials, 2018 - Springer
Background Routinely collected health data (RCD) are increasingly used for randomized
controlled trials (RCTs). This can provide three major benefits: increasing value through …

[HTML][HTML] Generalizability of findings from randomized controlled trials is limited in the leading general medical journals

A Malmivaara - Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives To document reporting of study characteristics of randomized controlled trials
(RCTs) in the four leading general medical journals and to appraise the generalizability of …

No differences were found between effect estimates from conventional and registry-based randomized controlled trials

T Mathes, P Klaßen, D Pieper - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives The study aims to assess whether the results from registry-based randomized
controlled trials (RRCTs) systematically differ from the results of conventional randomized …

Treatment effects in randomised trials using routinely collected data for outcome assessment versus traditional trials: meta-research study

KA Mc Cord, H Ewald, A Agarwal, D Glinz… - Bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To compare effect estimates of randomised clinical trials that use routinely
collected data (RCD-RCT) for outcome ascertainment with traditional trials not using …

Why all randomised controlled trials produce biased results

A Krauss - Annals of medicine, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are commonly viewed as the
best research method to inform public health and social policy. Usually they are thought of …

[HTML][HTML] The reporting of studies using routinely collected health data was often insufficient

LG Hemkens, EI Benchimol, SM Langan, M Briel… - Journal of clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objectives To assess reporting quality of studies using routinely collected health data (RCD)
to inform the REporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely collected health …

Registry-based randomized controlled trials merged the strength of randomized controlled trails and observational studies and give rise to more pragmatic trials

T Mathes, S Buehn, P Prengel, D Pieper - Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives The objective of this study was to analyze the features of registry-based
randomized trials (rRCTs). Study Design and Setting We systematically searched PubMed …

The RECORD reporting guidelines: meeting the methodological and ethical demands of transparency in research using routinely-collected health data

SG Nicholls, SM Langan, HT Sørensen… - Clinical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Routinely-collected health data (RCD) are now used for a wide range of studies, including
observational studies, comparative effectiveness research, diagnostics, studies of adverse …