Pilot trials in transfusion medicine

Preparatory work for clinical research in transfusionmedicinetakesonmanyforms.Background research activity which informs a future study is referred to as pilot work. Preliminary research projects of various designs with a specific hypothesis, objective, and method are referred to as pilot studies. Small-scale randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with specific feasibility or scientific objectives designed with a future large RCT in mind are pilot trials. 1 In this report, we