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 [...]

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 [...]

A Trial Forge recruitment project called Estimating Site Performance (ESP) has just been published in the journal Trials. The study asked trial managers at the Centre for Healthcare Randomised Trials (CHaRT), University of Aberdeen, to predict whether a site would recruit to target. No guidance [...]

To take advantage of so many trial methodologists, trial managers, statisticians, data managers, trialists, chief investigators and others being in Brighton for ICTMC (https://ictmc2019.com), we’re going to hold a Trial Forge meeting on Sunday 6th October. This isn’t part of ICTMC so you don’t need [...]