Proposed categories for reporting of service organization in rehabilitation in clinical trials: a discussion paper.
Cecilie Røe, Christoph Gutenbrunner, Andrea Bökel and 12 others
PMID 39374051WHAT IT FOUND
The authors propose a minimum set of organizational factors to report in rehabilitation trials.
They recommend detailing the service context, setting, and quality assurance to help clinicians understand how care was organized.
Key findings
01The proposed minimum reporting set includes Context and Setting of services and Quality assurance and management.
02Authors are advised to specify differences between intervention arms regarding these organizational categories.
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What it does not show
This is a proposal for reporting guidelines, not a study of patient outcomes. The process was limited to a small group of experts and users, and speech therapists were explicitly noted as lacking in the participant pool. The proposed set is a 'test-version' and has not been validated for its impact on the clarity or quality of published research.
Declared interests
The authors certify that there is no conflict of interest with any financial organization.
The easy way to misread this
Do not interpret this as evidence that specific organizational structures improve patient outcomes. This is a methodological proposal for how to describe services in future research, not a clinical trial result.