ASSIST Tool and Surgical Randomized Controlled Trial Applicability

Digestive Cancer Clinical Trial

— ASTA  

Official title:

Impact of a Graphical Tool on the Reader's Interpretation of Surgical RCT Applicability In the Field of Digestive Cancer

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01763489
• Other study ID #: RAV004
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2014
• Est. completion date: March 2015

Study information

• Verified date: September 2018
• Source: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Background: The ASSIST tool is a graphical tool to represent and evaluate the applicability of a surgery trial to improve the translation of research to practice.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of the ASSIST tool on the interpretation of the applicability of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the field of digestive cancer surgery.

Design: This study is a randomized controlled trial with two parallel arms. Participants:

Surgeons who contribute to the assessment of manuscripts as experts (peer-reviewer) for international scientific journals of surgery (Annals of Surgery, Archives of Surgery, Gastrointestinal Surgery World Journal of International Journal of Surgical Oncology).

Intervention: Surgeons will be randomized into 2 groups. A group that will evaluate a case vignette (synopsis) of a randomized trial in surgery, and the other group that will evaluate the same case vignette with the representation of the external validity of the trial with ASSIST tool.

Outcome measures: Participants will indicate on a numeric scale range from 1 to 10 if they feel able to judge the applicability of the trial for 1) patients, 2) centers, 3) surgeons and 4) intervention.

Sample Size: 28 case vignettes with randomized trials and their ASSIST tool have been developed and evaluated. The inclusion of 130 participants (65 per arm) is required.

Description:

The study will be conducted in 2 steps:

In a first step, investigators will develop cases vignettes of published RCTs evaluating surgical interventions in the field of digestive cancer with its representations of external validity according to ASSIST.

In a second step, investigators will invite a panel of peer reviewers to appraise the external validity (applicability) of selected RCTs without and with the graphical tool (ASSIST), on a security web site.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: March 2015
• Est. primary completion date: March 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• surgeons

• who contribute to the assessment of manuscripts as experts (peer-reviewer) for international scientific journals of surgery (Annals of Surgery, Archives of Surgery, Gastrointestinal Surgery World Journal of International Journal of Surgical Oncology)

Exclusion Criteria:

• No one

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Digestive Cancer
• Gastrointestinal Neoplasms

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Applicability Assessment
assess the applicability of a trial using the ASSIST tool or the synopsis

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	feeling able to judge the applicability of the trial	Participants will indicate on a numeric scale range from 1 to 10 if they feel able to judge the applicability of the trial for patients	2 months