应用目标试验仿真框架的研究现行实践:系统审查协议.
Theophile Bigirumurame1, Shaun Kuan Wei Hiu2, M Dawn Teare2
1Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK theophile.bigirumurame@newcastle.ac.uk.
BMJ open
|June 27, 2023
概括
本系统性审查审查了如何使用目标试验模拟与观察数据来评估随机对照试验 (RCT) 不存在时的干预有效性. 它调查了研究实践,用于现实世界的因果效应估计.
科学领域:
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
背景情况:
- 当随机对照试验 (RCT) 不可行时,观察性研究对于估计真实世界的因果关系至关重要.
- 目标试验模拟将RCT设计原则应用于观测数据,创建一个假设的试验框架.
- 这种方法旨在增强非实验性研究的因果推断的有效性.
研究的目的:
- 系统地审查和调查应用目标试验仿真框架的研究实践.
- 了解如何使用这个框架来评估使用观察数据的干预措施的有效性.
主要方法:
- 在多个数据库 (Medline,Embase,PsycINFO,SCOPUS,Web of Science,Cochrane Library) 和试验注册表中进行全面的系统文献搜索.
- 包括使用目标试验仿真框架的研究报告和协议.
- 关于研究设计,数据源,分析,结果,解释和传播的数据提取,采用双重审核员选择和第三审核员决议.
- 定性和定量数据的叙述综合,以PRISMA (系统审查和元分析的首选报告项目) 原则为指导.
主要成果:
- 该部分在审查完成后将被填写.
结论:
- 该部分在审查完成后将被填写.
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