ReviewWorld neurosurgery2022
Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials: A Methodological Overview.
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- Effectiveness of educational technology on human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS prevention: randomized clinical trial.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Trial
- Effect of a Nutrition Intervention on Mediterranean Diet Adherence Among Firefighters: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2023Trial
- Design and monitoring of randomized trials in vision research with binary endpoints.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2026Article
- Nurse-led risk-based primary healthcare intervention in midlife women's health management in Hong Kong: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial protocol.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- Analysis of Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials: A Tutorial Using Marginal Models.Statistics in medicine · 2026Article
- Applications and implementation considerations for stepped-wedge designs in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2026Review
- Context Is Medicine: Integrating the Exposome into Neurorehabilitation.Brain sciences · 2025Article
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- Tackling healthcare providers bias: a systematic review of interventions with implications for inclusive clinical research.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- SWCRTsimulator: A simulation-based platform for power estimation in stepped wedge cluster randomized trials with interval-censored outcomes.SoftwareX · 2025Article
- Power analysis for concurrent balanced or imbalanced multiple-intervention stepped wedge design: a simulation-based approach.BMC medical research methodology · 2025Article
- Comparison of crisis response planning and treatment as usual for active duty service members at risk for suicide: Study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial in a military treatment facility.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2024Article
- How to achieve model-robust inference in stepped wedge trials with model-based methods?Biometrics · 2024Article
- Statistical Considerations for the Design and Analysis of Pragmatic Trials in Aging Research.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Planning stepped wedge cluster randomized trials to detect treatment effect heterogeneity.Statistics in medicine · 2024Article
- Estimating intra-cluster correlation coefficients for planning longitudinal cluster randomized trials: a tutorial.International journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- Generalizing the information content for stepped wedge designs: A marginal modeling approach.Scandinavian journal of statistics, theory and applications · 2023Article
- Assessing exposure-time treatment effect heterogeneity in stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials.Biometrics · 2023Article
- Marginal proportional hazards models for clustered interval-censored data with time-dependent covariates.Biometrics · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundStepped wedge cluster randomized trials enable rigorous evaluations of health intervention programs in pragmatic settings. In the present study, we aimed to update neurosurgeon scientists on the design of stepped wedge randomized trials.
methodsWe have presented an overview of recent methodological developments for stepped wedge designs and included an update on the newer associated methodological tools to aid with future study designs.
resultsWe defined the stepped wedge trial design and reviewed the indications for the design in depth. In addition, key considerations, including mainstream methods of analysis and sample size determination, were discussed.
conclusionsStepped wedge designs can be attractive for study intervention programs aiming to improve the delivery of patient care, especially when examining a small number of heterogeneous clusters.
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