The phrase "a pilot trial of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a preliminary study or test conducted to evaluate the feasibility, time, cost, and adverse events involved in a research project or intervention.
Example: "We conducted a pilot trial of the new medication to assess its effectiveness before a larger study."
Alternatives: "a preliminary trial of" or "an initial trial of".
But he acknowledged that there could be a pilot trial of vertical integration in Scotland.If all this goes ahead, the industry would be run by four or five large regional operators in sole charge of train operations in their areas.
To conduct a pilot trial of internet-based, cancer-adapted yoga for women receiving breast cancer treatment.
Therefore we wish to perform a pilot trial of forced fluid removal vs. standard care in critically ill patients with high-risk acute kidney injury and severe fluid overload.
A pilot trial of the new heavy metal-bearing compound, described here Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW), has extended the lives of people with brain cancer.
To conduct a pilot trial of yoga for the treatment of chronic low back pain (LBP) to inform the feasibility and practicality of conducting a full-scale trial in the UK; and to assess the efficacy of yoga for the treatment of chronic low back pain.
The authors conducted a pilot trial of a new dissonance-based group eating disorder treatment designed to be a cost-effective front-line transdiagnostic treatment that could be more widely disseminated than extant individual or family treatments that are more expensive and difficult to deliver.
This study was designed as a pilot trial to evaluate the feasibility of NO administered by hood in neonates with elevated alveolar-arterial oxygen gradients (A-a DO2).
In summary, this study has emphasised the value of a pilot trial to assess anticipated behaviour change.
The survey also examined respondents' opinions about potential control group provision and recruitment methods which would be important for designing a pilot trial evaluation of a PA parenting intervention.
58 A recent pilot trial of a protocol for no sedation found that patients with no sedation had significantly more days without ventilation than those receiving daily sedation breaks (mean difference 4 days, 0.3 to 8; P=0.019).
Thus, obeticholic acid, an FXR agonist, was studied in a small pilot trial of 23 diabetic patients with NAFLD.
