Does Participation in a Randomized Clinical Trial Change Outcomes? An Evaluation of Patients Not Enrolled in the SPRINT Trial.
Does Participation in a Randomized Clinical Trial Change Outcomes? An Evaluation of Patients Not Enrolled in the SPRINT Trial.
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参与随机临床试验会改变结果吗？
DOI：
10.1097/bot.0000000000000533
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
SPRINTInvestigators
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作者：
Lin,CarolAlice;Bhandari,Mohit;Guyatt,Gordon;Walter,StephenD;Schemitsch,EmilH;Swiontkowski,Marc;Sanders,David;Tornetta3rd,Paul;SPRINTInvestigators
Objectives:To determine the extent to which knowledge from clinical trial protocols is transferred to nonparticipating patients.Design:Retrospective review of prospectively collected data from a large clinical trial.Setting:Six level-1 international trauma centers.Methods:We compared rates and timing of reoperation in a subset of patients enrolled in the Study to Prospectively evaluate Reamed Intramedullary Nails in Patients with Tibial Fractures (SPRINT) to concurrent patients who were eligible but not enrolled. This was a retrospective review of prospectively collected trial data. The records of 6 of the original SPRINT centers were searched for non-SPRINT patients who underwent intramedullary nailing of a closed tibial fracture. The rate and timing of reoperation were compared. A P< 0.05 was considered significant.Results:One hundred fourteen non-SPRINT patients were compared with 328 patients enrolled in SPRINT from those same sites. There were 7 reoperations (6.1%) in non-SPRINT patients versus 18 (5.2%) in SPRINT patients [odds ratio (OR) 1.19, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.41 to 3.13; P= 0.811]. There was no difference in the time to reoperation between the SPRINT and non-SPRINT patients (6.2 vs. 6.8 months, 95% CI of the difference− 3.8 to 2.6; P= 0.685) or in the proportion of patients who underwent reoperation before 6 months (29% vs. 43%; OR 1.75; 95% CI 0.18 to 15.41; P= 0.647).Conclusions:Patients not enrolled in SPRINT had similarly low rates of reoperation for nonunion, and the average time to reoperation for both groups was longer than 6 months. A 6-month waiting period may have allowed slow-to-heal fractures adequate time to heal, thereby reducing the rate of diagnosis of nonunion. As such, this waiting period could contribute to lower-than-expected reoperation rates for nonunion. It is possible that clinical trials may beneficially influence the care of nonenrolled patients.Level of Evidence:Prognostic level II. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
