Journal article
Individuals with diabetes preferred that future trials use patient-important outcomes and provide pragmatic inferences
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: We sought to examine patients' preferences regarding the design of diabetes trials. Specifically, do patients prefer trials to focus on patient-important outcomes (vs. surrogate outcomes) and provide practical/pragmatic answers (vs. mechanistic/explanatory answers)?
STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We mailed a questionnaire to a stratified random sample of 4,796 patients with diabetes receiving care from 371 primary care clinicians in the …
Authors
Murad MH; Shah ND; Van Houten HK; Ziegenfuss JY; Deming JR; Beebe TJ; Smith SA; Guyatt GH; Montori VM
Journal
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 64, No. 7, pp. 743–748
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
7 2011
DOI
10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.08.005
ISSN
0895-4356