Sample size calculators for planning stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials: a review and comparison

Y Ouyang, F Li, JS Preisser… - International journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials (SW-
CRTs). SW-CRTs include several design variations and methodology is rapidly developing …

Information content of stepped wedge designs under the working independence assumption

Z Tian, F Li - Journal of statistical planning and inference, 2024 - Elsevier
The stepped wedge design is increasingly popular in pragmatic trials and implementation
science research studies for evaluating system-level interventions that are perceived to be …

Maintaining the validity of inference from linear mixed models in stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials under misspecified random-effects structures

Y Ouyang, M Taljaard, AB Forbes… - Statistical Methods in …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
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GQ5 POS= 12pt]?> models are commonly used in analyzing stepped-wedge cluster …

Planning stepped wedge cluster randomized trials to detect treatment effect heterogeneity

F Li, X Chen, Z Tian, R Wang… - Statistics in Medicine, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Stepped wedge design is a popular research design that enables a rigorous evaluation of
candidate interventions by using a staggered cluster randomization strategy. While …

Generalizing the information content for stepped wedge designs: A marginal modeling approach

F Li, J Kasza, EL Turner, PJ Rathouz… - … Journal of Statistics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stepped wedge trials are increasingly adopted because practical constraints necessitate
staggered roll‐out. While a complete design requires clusters to collect data in all periods …

Sample size requirements for testing treatment effect heterogeneity in cluster randomized trials with binary outcomes

L Maleyeff, R Wang, S Haneuse, F Li - Statistics in Medicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cluster randomized trials (CRTs) refer to a popular class of experiments in which
randomization is carried out at the group level. While methods have been developed for …

Sample size calculations for stepped wedge designs with treatment effects that may change with the duration of time under intervention

JP Hughes, WY Lee, AB Troxel, PJ Heagerty - Prevention Science, 2024 - Springer
The stepped wedge design is often used to evaluate interventions as they are rolled out
across schools, health clinics, communities, or other clusters. Most models used in the …

Power analyses for stepped wedge designs with multivariate continuous outcomes

K Davis‐Plourde, M Taljaard, F Li - Statistics in medicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multivariate outcomes are common in pragmatic cluster randomized trials. While sample
size calculation procedures for multivariate outcomes exist under parallel assignment, none …

Calculating power for multilevel implementation trials in mental health: Meaningful effect sizes, intraclass correlation coefficients, and proportions of variance …

NJ Williams, NC Cardamone… - Implementation …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Despite the ubiquity of multilevel sampling, design, and analysis in mental
health implementation trials, few resources are available that provide reference values of …

A user-centred implementation strategy for tuberculosis contact investigation in Uganda: protocol for a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial

A Katamba, AJ Gupta, P Turimumahoro, E Ochom… - BMC public health, 2023 - Springer
Background Tuberculosis (TB) is among the leading causes of infectious death worldwide.
Contact investigation is an evidence-based, World Health Organisation-endorsed …