1. Applying PRECIS-2 to primary care trials
Gordon Forbes
Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit, Queen Mary University of London

2. The PCTU and PRECIS-2
Worked with trial teams to apply PRECIS-2 to seven randomised trials in primary care
Conducted a qualitative study investigating what makes trials relevant to primary care (see poster #170)

3. COPERS
Trial of a group self management course for chronic pain patients

4. SWAP
A trial of a peer support weight action programme

5. Cluster randomised trials and PRECIS-2
STOP trial: pharmacy based treatment for smoking cessation
Randomisation and intervention at the pharmacy level

6. Some tips on scoring a PRECIS-2 domain
Before deciding what the PRECIS-2 score for a domain is try understand:
What the PRECIS-2 domain means your context
What is “usual care” (or a PRECIS-2 score of 5)
What is planned/happened in the trial