Defining Feasibility and Pilot Studies in Preparation for Randomised Controlled Trials: Development of a Conceptual Framework

• Sandra M. Eldridge ,

  * E-mail: s.eldridge@qmul.ac.uk

  Affiliation Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Gillian A. Lancaster,

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

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• Michael J. Campbell,

  Affiliation School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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• Lehana Thabane,

  Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Sally Hopewell,

  Affiliation Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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• Claire L. Coleman,

  Affiliation Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

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• Christine M. Bond

  Affiliation Centre of Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

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