To streamline and focus all of this great work, the two conference streams will be joining forces from 2027 onwards to form a single International Conference on Cluster Randomised & Stepped Wedge Trials.
Watch this space!
The annual meeting on Current Developments in Cluster Randomised Trials & Stepped Wedge Designs was held most recently in Birmingham UK in 2025.
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📢The biennial York conference is open for another 10 days for submissions to its 2026 meeting:
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A super-engaged (and expanding) group of people around the world are doing thoughtful research on how to do stepped wedge trials better.
There are currently TWO regular conference streams (never let it be said that I hog all the stepped wedges):
Yes, I think the stepped wedge might catch on.
A reminder that the call for abstracts for the 5th International Conference on Stepped Wedge Design 2026 is still open—deadline 13th Feb midday.
Reported problems and responses during the conduct of stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials in healthcare settings: a qualitative systematic review academic.oup.com/ije/article/...
The stepped wedge design came up in the #CCRDownUnder meeting last week so it seemed a good time to revisit the pros and cons of this design 1/6
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Role of recruitment bias in stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trials: a systematic review bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
A scoping review identified additional considerations for defining estimands in cluster randomised trials - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
Lots of feedback and engagement after this session. Some gentle push-back still: "But what if there's even just a *perception* from sites that a stepped wedge is preferable?" 🧵
📢 Registration now open for the 11th annual meeting on Current Developments in Cluster Randomised Trials & Stepped Wedge Designs on 18th & 19th November 2025 in Birmingham UK.
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Assessing mediation in cross-sectional stepped wedge cluster randomized trials onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Save the date: Fifth International Conference on Stepped Wedge Design 2026 12th-14th May (online)
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Information-theoretic criteria for optimizing designs of individually randomized stepped-wedge clinical trials link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A useful reminder of the original meaning of a "stepped wedge".
Improving the design of staggered implementation cluster randomised trials qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl...
Super happy to say that my first Biometrics article was published this week!😃 Along with Fan Li, Monica Taljaard, & Denise Esserman, we derive sample size & power formula for cross-sectional stepped-wedge trials with time-to-event outcomes, & explored the impact of finite sample variance corrections
Abstracts on any aspect of design, conduct, analysis and reporting of cluster and stepped-wedge trials are welcome, and the aim is for a balance of methodological and applied presentations.
📢 The 11th annual meeting on Current Developments in Cluster Randomised Trials & Stepped Wedge Designs will take place 18/19 November 2025 in Birmingham UK.
Abstract submission is open, deadline for submission 11 July 2025 forms.gle/jS83TAKhs4U8.... Info on registration etc to follow!
Well I'm definitely not.
Identifying less burdensome and more cost-efficient incomplete stepped wedge designs for continuous outcomes collected via repeated cross-sections onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
How should parallel cluster randomized trials with a baseline period be analyzed?—a survey of estimands and common estimators onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
What is a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Bayesian hierarchical penalized spline models for immediate and time-varying intervention effects in stepped wedge cluster randomized trials pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Analysis of cohort stepped wedge cluster-randomized trials with nonignorable dropout via joint modeling pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39963907/
The relative efficiency of staircase and stepped wedge cluster randomised trial designs journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
A systematic review of stepped wedge cluster randomized trials in high impact journals: assessing the design, rationale, and analysis www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
How nurse researchers can use stepped-wedge design and analysis journals.rcni.com/nurse-resear...
Multilevel intervention stepped wedge designs link.springer.com/article/10.1...
