Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit (PCTU)
The Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit (PCTU) leads and supports clinical trials in which the primary question of interest relates to intervention effectiveness: whether an intervention works under real-life conditions. It also leads and supports pilot studies for these trials. Currently, the unit focuses on trials of complex interventions, and on trials designed to understand processes explaining effectiveness, but also supports a small number of other pragmatic trials. In addition, the unit leads methodological research relevant to its focus.
The aim of the unit is to lead, support and encourage high quality pragmatic trials and pilot studies particularly where they fit with the research strategies of the two centres with which the unit is linked, or with the methodological interests of the unit.
About us
The PCTU is based in the Centre for Primary Care and Public Health and linked to the Centre for Psychiatry. We have been conducting pragmatic clinical trials since the mid 1990s. We have considerable experience and expertise in primary care, community-based and mental health trials, and particularly cluster randomised trials and trials of complex interventions and behaviour change.
We are a fully registered UKCRC clinical trials unit.
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