Stepped wedge
Stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial designs: a review of reporting quality and design features
... a stepped wedge design have been ascertained [16, 17], whilst, as discussed, extensions to the standard design to allow for multiple levels of clustering or ‘incomplete block’ designs have also been ...
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Promoting deceased organ and tissue donation registration in family physician waiting rooms (RegisterNow 1 trial): study protocol for a pragmatic, stepped wedge, cluster randomized controlled registry
... planned, stepped-wedge, cluster randomized registry trial in six family physician offices in Ontario, Canada to evaluate the effectiveness of reception staff providing patients with a pamphlet that ...
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Comparing Tuberculosis Diagnostic Yield in Smear/Culture and Xpert® MTB/RIF-Based Algorithms Using a Non-Randomised Stepped-Wedge Design
... non-randomised stepped-wedge evaluation of TB yield in five PHC groups as they transitioned from the smear/culture to the Xpert 1 based algorithms in Cape ...
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Promoting Recruitment using Information Management Efficiently (PRIME): statistical analysis plan for a stepped wedge cluster randomised trial within the REstart or STop Antithrombotics Randomised Trial (RESTART)
... a stepped wedge, cluster rando- mised trial of a complex intervention to help RESTART sites increase their recruitment and attain their own target number of ...
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Evaluation of a bespoke training to increase uptake by midwifery teams of NICE Guidance for membrane sweeping to reduce induction of labour: a stepped wedge cluster randomised design
... An audit at Birmingham Women ’ s NHS Foundation Trust (BWNFT) had suggested that not all eligible women were offered membrane sweeping and maternity managers at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital (BHH) – part of Heart of ...
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Operationalizing a model to quantify implementation of a multi-component intervention in a stepped-wedge trial
... This study presents an operationalization of a quantifiable implementation evaluation suitable for interventions implemented at multiple organizational levels and with multiple components. It shows that implementation ...
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Early and comprehensive care bundle in the elderly for acute heart failure in the emergency department: study protocol of the ELISABETH stepped wedge cluster randomized trial
... In this stepped-wedge clinical trial, patients will be re- cruited in 15 EDs in France, academic and non-aca- demic, rural and urban (Table 1). All clusters will begin the trial with the “control period” ...
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PARROT Ireland: Placental growth factor in Assessment of women with suspected pre-eclampsia to reduce maternal morbidity: a Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomised Control Trial Research Study Protocol
... multicentre, stepped wedge cluster, randomised trial aiming to recruit 4000 women presenting with symptoms suggestive of preterm pre-eclampsia between 20 and 36+6 weeks’ ...
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The PULSAR primary care protocol: a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial to test a training intervention for general practitioners in recovery oriented practice to optimize personal recovery in adult patients
... is often missing from randomized controlled trials; how- ever, the UK Medical Research Council has provided use- ful guidelines for bringing rigor to the conduct of such evaluations. The value of process evaluation ...
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Eating As Treatment (EAT) study protocol: a stepped-wedge, randomised controlled trial of a health behaviour change intervention provided by dietitians to improve nutrition in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiotherapy
... Methods and analysis: A stepped-wedge cluster randomised design will be used. All recruitment hospitals begin in the control condition providing treatment as usual. In a randomly generated order, oncology ...
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THISTLE: trial of hands on Interprofessional simulation training for local emergencies: a research protocol for a stepped wedge clustered randomised controlled trial
... Methods: THISTLE (Trial of Hands-on Interprofessional Simulation Training for Local Emergencies) is a multi-centre stepped-wedge clustered randomised controlled superiority trial conducted across 12 large ...
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Designing a stepped wedge trial: three main designs, carry over effects and randomisation approaches
... Stepped wedge cluster randomised trials (SWTs) are becoming increasing popular and are being applied to a growing range of interventions, as shown in our re- view article ...
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Practice facilitation for improving cardiovascular care: secondary evaluation of a stepped wedge cluster randomized controlled trial using population based administrative data
... 1 The Improved Delivery of Cardiovascular Care IDOCC stepped wedge study design used in the analysis of clinical outcomes using population-based health administrative data.. Legend: the [r] ...
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Impact of early initiation versus national standard of care of antiretroviral therapy in Swaziland’s public sector health system: study protocol for a stepped wedge randomized trial
... Impact of early initiation versus national standard of care of antiretroviral therapy in Swaziland’s public sector health system: study protocol for a stepped-wedge randomized trial Fion[r] ...
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Ethical issues in the design and conduct of stepped wedge cluster randomized trials in low resource settings
... with stepped-wedge cluster random- ized trials (SW-CRTs), which randomly allocate clusters ...[1]. Stepped-wedge trials are forms of cluster randomized trials (CRTs) that raise important ...
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Effectiveness and safety of misoprostol distributed to antenatal women to prevent postpartum haemorrhage after child births: a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial
... the stepped-wedge design may increases the power of the study, since health facilities acted as their own control [22], and the study allowed us to assess the intervention in realistic ...
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Institutionalizing postpartum intrauterine device (IUD) services in Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Nepal: study protocol for a cluster randomized stepped wedge trial
... Because of the potential benefit of the intervention to all women, a cluster-randomized stepped wedge design was considered most appropriate for the study. Six hospitals were selected in each country to ...
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Stepped wedge cluster randomised trials: a review of the statistical methodology used and available
... these and specifies a GLMM with a random intercept for clusters as the recommended method of analysis; how- ever this applies only to the cross-sectional SWD. Hussey and Hughes also suggest that a GEE or a linear mixed ...
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Tight or less tight glycaemic targets for women with gestational diabetes mellitus for reducing maternal and perinatal morbidity? (TARGET): study protocol for a stepped wedge randomised trial
... A multicentre, stepped wedge, cluster, randomised trial [24–26], protocol date 2014 version 1. This study design has been used mainly to evaluate interventions during routine implementation, particularly ...
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Analysis of cluster randomised stepped wedge trials with repeated cross sectional samples
... The UK body, the National Institute of Health and Clin- ical Excellence (NICE), recommends sweeping of the membranes at term to reduce induction of labour, but it is known that many women do not receive a membrane sweep. ...
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