Chapter
How to Assess a Pilot Trial in Surgery
Abstract
A feasibility studyFeasibility study is defined as a study asking ‘whether something can be done, should we proceed with it, and if so, how’ and a pilot study as ‘a study in which a futuretrialTrialor part of it, is conducted on a smaller scale’. The reasons for conducting a pilot trialPilot trial include procedural, resource- or management-related, scientific and methodological rationales. Unfortunately, pilot studies have received little …
Authors
Li G; Lancaster GA; Thabane L
Book title
Evidence-Based Surgery
Pagination
pp. 115-124
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2019
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-05120-4_12