Open AccessDo Randomized Controlled Nursing Trials Have a Pragmatic or Explanatory Attitude? Findings From the Pragmatic–Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS) Tool Exercise
Author(s) -
Alvisa Palese,
Maria Grazia Bevilacqua,
Angelo Dante
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of nursing research/the journal of nursing research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1948-965X
pISSN - 1682-3141
DOI - 10.1097/jnr.0000000000000045
Subject(s) - randomized controlled trial , explanatory model , medicine , medline , scale (ratio) , cluster (spacecraft) , psychology , nursing , computer science , pathology , statistics , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics , political science , law , programming language
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) may be categorized as either effectiveness trials or efficacy trials, which may be categorized by the Pragmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary (PRECIS) tool. However, no data regarding the application of the PRECIS tool in a cluster of RCTs belonging to a specific discipline such as nursing are available.