'Trial Exegesis': Methods for Synthesizing Clinical and Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) Data in Trials to Inform Clinical Practice. A Systematic Review.

Angus G K McNairRhiannon C MacefieldNatalie S BlencoweSara T BrookesJane M Blazeby

Published in: PloS one (2016)

It is recommended that single papers, with detailed PRO rationale and integrated PRO and clinical data are published to optimize trial exegesis. Further work to examine whether this improves the use of PRO data to inform practice is needed.

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anti inflammatory
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patient reported outcomes
clinical trial
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study protocol
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systematic review