Pilot and Feasibility Studies

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Thank you to our peer reviewers

The editors and staff of Pilot and Feasibility Studies would like to warmly thank our peer reviewers whose comments have helped to shape the journal.

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Pilot and Feasibility Studies encompasses all aspects of the design, conduct and reporting of pilot and feasibility studies in biomedicine. The journal publishes research articles that are intended to directly influence future clinical trials or large scale observational studies, as well as protocols, commentaries and methodology articles. The journal also ensures that the results of all well-conducted, peer-reviewed, pilot and feasibility studies are published, regardless of outcome or significance of findings.

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Intervention development
Edited by Pat Hoddinott

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Pilot and feasibility testing of patient-reported outcome measures
Edited by Georgina L Jones

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Call for papers: Pilot and feasibility testing of PROMs

We are pleased to announce that Pilot and Feasibility Studies is accepting submissions for a new thematic series on pilot and feasibility testing of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs).

Guest Edited by Dr Georgina L Jones (Leeds Beckett University, UK), this series will include articles that report on pilot and feasibility testing of PROMs, either during PROM development, evaluation and implementation, or reports on the use of PROMs in any pilot and feasibility studies.

Gillian Lancaster, Editor-in-Chief

Gillian Lancaster is Professor of Medical Statistics at the Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University. She has been engaged in many multidisciplinary clinical investigations over the past 25 years, most notably the Working Group that developed the CONSORT extension guideline for reporting pilot and feasibility trials. Her research scopes many medical and social issues, with a specific interest in methodology for developing Patient Reported Outcome Measures and assessment tools for use on children and young people. More broadly she has served on a wide range of research review, pediatric ethics, funding, data monitoring and trial steering committees, has sat on the Council of the Royal Statistical Society and has been Associate Editor for the RSS Journal Series A: Statistics in Society.

Lehana Thabane, Editor-in-Chief

Lehana Thabane is a Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Chair of the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; associate member of the Departments of Pediatrics and Anesthesia at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). He is the Director of Biostatistics at St Joseph’s Healthcare—Hamilton (Ontario, Canada) and Senior Scientist at the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) of the Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster University. As a biostatistician and research methodologist, Professor Thabane’s primary research interests include: i) design and analysis of clinical trials, pilot and feasibility trials, pragmatic trials, registry-based trials, and knowledge translation trials; ii) outcomes research; iii) evidence synthesis methods; and iv) mentorship in clinical trials. He is also interested in transparent reporting of trial findings, and he is a member of the Working Groups of the CONSORT extension to: a) Pilot and Feasibility Trials; and b) Cohort- and Registry-Based Trials.