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Trials Change Lives @trialschangelives.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#CochraneDaily On #Red4Research Day, there are several Cochrane Reviews of interventions to help people to join and stay in randomised trials. Go to CochraneLibrary.com and search "recruitment or retention and trials" in title, to find them #RCT #CochraneReviews

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trialforge.bsky.social @trialforge.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

It's #Red4Research Day! Thanks to all those who support health and social care research! Some resources to help make research more informative and relevant are available at www.trialforge.org

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trialforge.bsky.social @trialforge.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We have just created a library of participant information leaflets for trials, over 200, if you are looking for inspiration. Check out: www.trialforge.org/excelsior-pi... The is part of EXCELSIOR, a project ed by Frances Shiely at Cork University.

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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Tolerating bad health research (part 2): trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... In summary, after risk of bias reassessment of 140 UK, Irish and Canadian trials, there were still as many bad trials (55%) but trials judged to be good increased from 9% to 16%. Not very reassuring really.

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Tolerating bad health research (part 2): still as many bad trials, but more good ones too - Trials

Background We previously published a study examining the risk of bias of a random selection of Cochrane systematic reviews. The purpose of our current study is to reassess the risk of bias of a cohort...

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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Here's a new risk of bias tool for systematic reviews: ROBUST-RCT www.bmj.com/content/388/... Similar to an older Cochrane risk of bias tool, it looks like something that could actually be used, which is great. The team explicitly aimed to balance simplicity and methodological rigour.

The 6 core items of the new risk of bias tool. Also in paper at the link.

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trialforge.bsky.social @trialforge.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Here's an interesting rapid review on strategies to enhance the ethnic diversity of breast cancer clinical drug trials. It gives some trial recruitment and retention recommendations too. www.academia.edu/2998-7741/1/...

Figure 3 from the paper, which gives the eight themes identified in the review.

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Shaun Treweek @streweek.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A new publication on the involvement of ethnic minority people in health and social care research priority setting from around the world. In summary, very few countries reported the involvement of ethnic minority community members in research priority-setting. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Global Insights on the Involvement of Ethnic Minority Populations in Health and Social Care Research Priority Setting: A Systematic Scoping Review - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Background Representing all population groups in health and social care research is essential for generating research relevant to decision making in everyday clinical and social healthcare policy and ...

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Beatriz Goulão @beatrizgoulao.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

New paper exploring measuring #environmental impact of #health interventions - we found diversity in outcomes, measures, & analysis. Limited involvement of interested parties. Absolutely essential to do better and reach consensus on what's important to measure www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

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Measuring the environmental impact of health interventions in randomised controlled trials – a scoping review

Healthcare accounts for 4% of the overall greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Reducing carbon emissions is a key strategic aim for health systems in multiple countries. To achieve this, environmental ...

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trialforge.bsky.social @trialforge.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Do you work in the field of clinical trials? Please consider taking part in a Aberdeen-led survey that explores the practices of sharing recruitment and/ or retention rates with recruiting sites as a method to improve recruitment and/or retention behaviours. forms.office.com/e/9RCxiiCXM2.

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Microsoft Forms

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trialforge.bsky.social @trialforge.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

If you are interested in making randomised trials more inclusive there's a lot of material on the Trial Forge site: www.trialforge.org/improving-tr... ..and it's also worth looking at STEP UP: step-up-clinical-trials.co.uk

Screen shot of the webpage that the link in the message takes you to.

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trialforge.bsky.social @trialforge.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If you are interested in Studies Within a Trial (SWATs) as a way of improving trial processes such as recruitment and retention, have a look at the searchable collection of SWAT protocols and resources at: www.trialforge.org/swat-resourc...

Screenshot of the SWAT resources page available at the link

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