Somehow reconciling the views of the 12 disparate members of the committee on obscenity and film censorship, he managed to produce a beautifully dispassionate, shrewd, pragmatic report on this most emotive issue in November 1979, much of which he wrote himself.
This is a pragmatic report of the overall performance of a low tech clinical examination and diagnoses achieved, compared to highly sophisticated and predominantly invasive procedures with a complex group of patients.
The intervention tested in the pragmatic RCT reported in this paper and elsewhere [ 3] focussed on using pre-appraised sources rather than critical appraisal which justifies the focus on steps 1 and 2 and the exclusion of step 3.
In this study, some of the "pragmatic" providers reported instructing caretakers to defer starting the first dose until they reach home, where they could administer the drug using safe water after feeding the child.
As a pragmatic solution for reporting anthropogenic fluxes under UNFCCC, the IPCC developed the "managed land proxy".
We propose here guidance for reporting pragmatic trials, as a specific extension of the CONSORT statement.
We believe that the reporting typology that we developed provides a useful, if pragmatic, structure for reporting about a relatively large group of articles.
In addition, the RCT part of our study is written in accordance with recommendations for reporting pragmatic randomised controlled trials [ 34].
This paper presents the design of the Promoting Aging Migrants Capabilities Studyy, an RCT as well as an implementation study, which was written in accordance with the SPIRIT guidelines for study protocol content [ 32, 33], and the CONSORT recommendations for reporting pragmatic RCTs [ 34].
This paper presents the study design, the intervention and the outcome measures as well as the baseline characteristics of the study participants in accordance with the CONSORT recommendations for reporting pragmatic RCT [ 24].
