Assessing the extent to which current clinical research is consistent with patient priorities: a scoping review using a case study in patients on or nearing dialysis

Table 3 Characteristics of the identified studies including adult patients on or nearing chronic dialysis

	Published studies in the medical literature	Registered RCTs	Studies identified through funding organizations of Canada, U.S., Australia, and U.K.
Study designs included	RCTs and observational studies	RCTs	RCTs and observational studies
Eligible studies; n	1116	315	70
Studies in the top 10 priorities; n (%)	194 (17.4)	71 (22.5)	15 (21.4)
Study type (%)
RCT	12.1	100	10
Observational	87.9	0	90
Dialysis status (%)
Hemodialysis	55.7	70.5	48.5
Peritoneal dialysis	12.0	19.4	15.7
Both	29.9	10.2	35.7
Nearing dialysis	2.3	0	0
Assessed clinical outcomes as part of the primary outcome of the study (%)	30.9	15.9	32.9
Primary funding type (%)
Academic^a	40.6	79.3	100
Commercial^b	13.3	20.3	0
Unspecified	46.2	0.3	0

RCT randomized controlled trial, ^aIncluding public and not-for-profit funding; ^bincluding studies from the pharmaceutical industry

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