Pragmatic Dose-Response Analysis
Pragmatic dose-response analysis quantifies how varying levels of an exposure or treatment relate to clinical outcomes under real-world conditions. By embedding dose-response questions within pragmatic study designs — broad eligibility criteria, routine care settings, and heterogeneous populations — it bridges the gap between controlled pharmacological dose-finding and the messy variability of everyday clinical practice. The approach is especially valued when the goal is to establish or refine optimal dosing guidance from evidence that reflects actual patient populations.
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- Greenland, S., & Longnecker, M. P. (1992). Methods for trend estimation from summarized dose-response data, with applications to meta-analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology, 135(11), 1301–1309. · DOI 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116237
- Thorpe, K. E., Zwarenstein, M., Oxman, A. D., Treweek, S., Furberg, C. D., Altman, D. G., ... & Schulz, K. F. (2009). A pragmatic-explanatory continuum indicator summary (PRECIS): a tool to help trial designers. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 62(5), 464–475. · DOI 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2008.12.011
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