DELTA2: Output

FULL GUIDANCE

The DELTA² guidance is available as a preprint:

Cook JA, Julious SA, Sones W, Hampson LV, Hewitt C, Berlin JA, Ashby D, Emsley R, Fergusson DA, Walters SJ, Wilson EC, Maclennan G, Stallard N, Rothwell JC, Bland M, Brown L, Ramsay CR, Cook A, Armstrong D, Altman D, Vale LD. Choosing the Target Difference ("effect size") for a Randomised Controlled Trial - DELTA² Guidance. Preprints 2018, 2018080521. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0521.v1.

The final DELTA² guidance is anticipated to be published in the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Journal in early 2019.

Protocol

The DELTA² protocol has now been published and is freely available:

Cook JA, Julious SA, Sones W, Rothwell JC, Ramsay CR, Hampson LV, Emsley R, Walters SJ, Hewitt C, Bland MJ, Fergusson DA, Berlin J, Altman D, Vale LD. Choosing the target difference ("effect size") for a randomised controlled trial - DELTA² guidance protocol. Trials. 2017; 18: 271. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-1969-5