Jean Siebenaler | Medical Director
OptumInsight Life Sciences

Learning Objectives:

1. Will be able to summarize the key reasons for designing a pragmatic trial versus an explanatory randomized trial or observational study design
2. Will be able to identify the key pragmatic clinical trial design and reporting elements

This brief presentation on pragmatic clinical trials (PCT) will highlight the role and the value of these increasingly popular study designs in Late Phase and Outcomes research. Differences between PCTs, explanatory RCTs and observational designs will be reviewed, and the important key design and reporting elements of PCTs will be discussed in detail.
 

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