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Pragmatic Screening Test Evaluation

A pragmatic screening test evaluation assesses the real-world effectiveness of a screening instrument under routine clinical or public-health conditions — rather than the tightly controlled, ideal-participant settings of explanatory studies. It asks whether the screening tool performs adequately in the actual populations and workflows where it will be deployed, prioritising external validity and implementation relevance over maximally controlled internal conditions.

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Pragmatic Screening Test Evaluation Study
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / epidemiology
  • Thorpe, K. E., Zwarenstein, M., Oxman, A. D., Treweek, S., Furberg, C. D., Altman, D. G., & Chalkidou, K. (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
  • Bossuyt, P. M., Reitsma, J. B., Bruns, D. E., Gatsonis, C. A., Glasziou, P. P., Irwig, L. M., & de Vet, H. C. (2003). Towards complete and accurate reporting of studies of diagnostic accuracy: The STARD Initiative. Annals of Internal Medicine, 138(1), 40-44. · DOI 10.7326/0003-4819-138-1-200301070-00010
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Taxonomic bucketCohort Studymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketCross-sectional epidemiological studymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyDiagnostic Accuracy Study Designmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketPragmatic randomized clinical trialmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketScreening Test Evaluationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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