Trial Forge Guidance 1: what is a Study Within A Trial (SWAT)?

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Shaun Treweek1, Simon Bevan2, Peter Bower3, Marion Campbell, Jacquie Christie4, Mike Clarke5, Clive Collett6, Seonaidh Cotton, Declan Devane7, Adel Elfeky1, Ella Flemyng8, Sandra Galvin7, Heidi Gardner1, Katie Gillies1, Jan O. Jansen9, Roberta Littleford10, Adwoa Parker11, Craig Ramsay1, Lynne Restrup12, Frank Sullivan13, David Torgerson11, Liz Tremain2, Matthew Westmore2, Paula Williamson14
1Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
2National Institute for Health Research Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
3Centre for Primary Care, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
4GSK Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage, UK
5Northern Ireland Network for Trials Methodology Research, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK
6Health Research Authority, London, UK
7HRB-Trials Methodology Research Network, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
8BioMed Central, London, UK
9Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
10Tayside Clinical Trials Unit, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
11York Trials Unit, University of York, York, UK
12Aberdeen, UK
13School of Medicine, St Andrews University, St Andrews, UK
14MRC North West Hub for Trials Methodology Research, Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

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