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Area of Science:

  • Critical care medicine
  • Clinical trial design
  • Comparative effectiveness research

Background:

  • Contemporary medical practices are essential for relevant clinical trial outcomes.
  • Comparative effectiveness research (CER) in critical care aims to evaluate different treatment strategies.
  • Ensuring trial designs reflect real-world clinical scenarios is crucial for generalizability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the extent to which recent critical care comparative effectiveness research adequately represents contemporaneous clinical practices.
  • To identify potential design flaws in critical care trials regarding the incorporation of current treatment standards.

Main Methods:

  • A systematic review of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) published in top-tier medical journals (NEJM, JAMA, The Lancet) from April 2019 to March 2020.
  • Identification of critical care comparative effectiveness research trials meeting inclusion criteria.
  • Review of cited sources and medical literature to define contemporary critical care practices.
  • Examination of control groups and comparable therapies in identified trials against established contemporary practices.

Main Results:

  • Out of 332 RCTs, 25 met the inclusion criteria for critical care comparative effectiveness research.
  • Seventeen trials successfully incorporated current practices into study arms.
  • Eight trials had insufficient "usual care" arms; four used fixed approaches leading to potentially inappropriate care for subgroups, and four failed to reflect common practices despite prior characterization efforts.

Conclusions:

  • Approximately one-third of critical care comparative effectiveness research trials in major journals did not adequately represent contemporary practices in their control arms or comparable therapies.
  • This indicates a widespread design weakness in critical care research, potentially impacting the validity and applicability of trial findings.
  • Failure to align trial designs with current clinical standards may compromise the relevance of comparative effectiveness research in critical care settings.