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The study aims to assess characteristics, reporting quality, risk of bias, and pragmatism in recent randomized trials in prehospital emergency care.

April 1, 2026Open Access

Characteristics, reporting, risk of bias and pragmatism in prehospital emergency care randomised trials from 2010 to 2024: a protocol for a meta-epidemiological study

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This meta-epidemiological study reviews characteristics and quality of prehospital emergency care trials, indicating areas for improvement.

The study aims to assess characteristics, reporting quality, risk of bias, and pragmatism in recent randomized trials in prehospital emergency care.
Systematic search of MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane CENTRAL for PEC trials from 2010 to 2024.
No restrictions on participants, interventions, or outcomes.
Evaluation of risk of bias using the Cochrane Risk of Bias 2 tool.
Assessment of pragmatism with the Pragmatic-Explanatory Continuum Indicator Summary-2 score.
Exploratory data analysis to summarize patterns and associations.
Identification of gaps and strengths in PEC research.
Variations found in risk of bias across different study designs.
Differences noted in reporting quality related to pragmatism levels.

Tárkányi et al. (2025) studied this question.

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This meta-epidemiological study reviews characteristics and quality of prehospital emergency care trials, indicating areas for improvement.