We are pleased to announce a new thematic series on pilot and feasibility studies from the implementation science and practice field. Guest edited by Professor PJ Naylor (University of Victoria, Canada) and Associate Professor Maureen C Ashe (The University of British Columbia, Canada), this series will include articles that help define and explore pilot or feasibility studies within implementation research.

Authors: Marwan S. Haddad, Lauren Bifulco, Jeannie McIntosh and Meghan Mc Clain Garcia

Content type: Research

15 November 2021

Authors: Ananda Sidarta, Yu Chin Lim, Christopher Wee Keong Kuah, Yong Joo Loh and Wei Tech Ang

Content type: Study Protocol

15 November 2021

Authors: Mai 脴ster酶 Cramon, Ines Raben, Anne Marie Beck and Jens Rikardt Andersen

Content type: Research

15 November 2021

Authors: Suzanne M. McDonough, Sarah C. Howes, Maurice Dillon, Judith McAuley, John Brady, Mary Clarke, Mike Clarke, Emily Lait, Duana McArdle, Tony O鈥橬eill, Iseult Wilson, Ailsa Niven, Julie Williams, Mark A. Tully, Marie H. Murphy and Catherine M. McDonough

Content type: Study Protocol

15 November 2021

Authors: Rachel M. Hiller, Rebecca S. Davis, John Devaney, Sarah L. Halligan, Richard Meiser-Stedman, Patrick Smith, Paul Stallard, Rebecca Kandiyali and Stephanie MacNeill

Content type: Study Protocol

13 November 2021

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Authors: Alicia O鈥機athain, Pat Hoddinott, Simon Lewin, Kate J. Thomas, Bridget Young, Joy Adamson, Yvonne JFM. Jansen, Nicola Mills, Graham Moore and Jenny L. Donovan

Content type: Review

7 September 2015

Authors: Alicia O鈥機athain, Liz Croot, Katie Sworn, Edward Duncan, Nikki Rousseau, Katrina Turner, Lucy Yardley and Pat Hoddinott

Content type: Review

12 March 2019

Authors: Gillian A Lancaster

Content type: Editorial

12 January 2015

Authors: Rita Kinsella, Sallie M. Cowan, Lyn Watson and Tania Pizzari

Content type: Study Protocol

14 November 2017

Authors: Mary Birken, Claire Henderson and Mike Slade

Content type: Research

23 April 2018

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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.

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

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Intervention development
Edited by Pat Hoddinott

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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鈥檚 Healthcare鈥擧amilton (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鈥檚 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.

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