Population health intervention research: what is the place for pilot studies?

Lehana Thabane; Linda Cambon; Louise Potvin; Jeanine Pommier; Joëlle Kivits; Laetitia Minary; Kareen Nour; Pierre Blaise; Julie Charlesworth; François Alla

doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3422-4

doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3422-4

Population health intervention research: what is the place for pilot studies?

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Volume: 20, Issue: 1

Published: May 30, 2019

Abstract

An international workshop on population health intervention research (PHIR) was organized to foster exchanges between experts from different disciplines and different fields. This paper aims to summarize the discussions around one of the issues addressed: the place or role of pilot studies in PHIR. Pilot studies are well-established in biomedical research, but the situation is more ambiguous for PHIR, in which a pilot study could refer to...