🚨 Combining statistical and dynamical modelling to guide the design of cluster randomised trials for malaria

Cluster randomised trials (CRTs) remain key for evaluating the community-wide impact of interventions against infectious diseases such as malaria. Randomising by cluster prevents contamination and enables both the direct and indirect effects of the intervention to be estimated. Although these trials are extremely informative, they can be logistically demanding and costly to carry out, which means it is important that these trials are well powered. Here, we present a framework for planning CRTs that measure malaria prevalence as the outcome…

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