Design and analysis of pilot studies: recommendations for good practice.

By Gillian Lancaster, S. Dodd, Paula R. Williamson. Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice, 2004

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Defining Feasibility and Pilot Studies in Preparation for Randomised Controlled Trials: Development of a Conceptual Framework (2016, methodology): “In a seminal paper in 2004 reviewing the literature in relation to pilot and feasibility studies conducted in preparation for an RCT [1], Lancaster et al reported that they could find no formal guidance as to what constituted a pilot study.”
The size of a pilot study for a clinical trial should be calculated in relation to considerations of precision and efficiency. (2012, background): “It has been suggested that n5 30 is an acceptable size for a pilot study [3].”
What is a pilot or feasibility study? A review of current practice and editorial policy (2010, methodology): “We searched citations to see whether the pilot studies identified by Lancaster et al [3] eventually led to main trials.”
Designing a Pilot Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial for Developing an Adaptive Treatment Strategy (2012, positive): “Scientists preparing to execute a randomized trial should also refer to the literature on executing external pilot studies for pointers on more general uses of pilot studies [34–36].”
Estimating the sample size for a pilot randomised trial to minimise the overall trial sample size for the external pilot and main trial for a continuous outcome variable (2015, background): “Therefore, since the purpose of the pilot is not to give a formal assessment of efficacy, then the sample size provided by the conventional calculations may be higher than necessary.(13)”
Guidelines for reporting non-randomised pilot and feasibility studies (2019, background): “[35] identified only 90/4449 (2%) research studies published between 2000 and 2001 that”
An audit of sample sizes for pilot and feasibility trials being undertaken in the United Kingdom registered in the United Kingdom Clinical Research Network database (2013, background): “There is the additional issue that setting the sample size too high may lead to a preventable failure to reach the recruitment target [12].”