The journal Research Methods in Medicine & Health Sciences is running a special issue addressing Studies Within A Trial (SWATs) (guest editors Professor Mike Clarke and Dr Adwoa Parker). The aim of this special issue is to promote the use of SWATs and to report key [...]

What is the Trial Forge SWAT Network? We’d like to bring groups that do SWATs together into a network, which would be a good way of keeping everyone up to speed with what sort of SWATs people would like to see being done, which SWATs people [...]

One way to fill gaps in trial process evidence is to run Studies Within A Trial, or SWATs. A while ago, the Health Research Board–Trial Methodology Research Network in Ireland together with Trial Forge produced a 2-page summary of the SWAT guidance that we published in [...]

Randomised trials are a central component of all evidence-informed health care systems and the evidence coming from them helps to support health care users, health professionals and others to make more informed decisions about treatment. The evidence available to trialists to support decisions on design, conduct [...]

ESP2 is now live! See https://w3.abdn.ac.uk/hsru/ESP2/ ESP2 asks the people who set up new trial recruitment sites to use an 8-item checklist to give their predictions of trial site recruitment at the site. We need 1000 site recruitment predictions and it would be fantastic if you [...]