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Adverse events |
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Outcomes that have been explicitly labelled as some form of unintended consequence of the treatment Types | Examples |
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- Adverse event
- Adverse efffect
| Adverse effects | Adverse events | Complications | Death | Drug reactions | Harm | Hospitalisation | Negative effects | Safety | Serious Adverse Events | Toxicity |
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Compliance with treatment |
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Adherence to intervention | patient adherence | health promotions behaviour questionnaire findings |
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Device/intervention failure |
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- Device failure
- Intervention failure
| Any treatment failures |
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Function |
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Physical functioning | - ability to work
- physical activities of daily living (e.g. ability to walk, independence, performance status, disability index, measures relating to exercise, sleep, motor skills, sexual dysfunction)
| Social functioning | - social functioning (e.g. ability to socialise, behaviour within society, communication, psychosocial development, aggression, recidivism, life enjoyment, participation)
| Role functioning | - role
- ability to care for children
- work status
| Emotional functioning/wellbeing | - emotions
- overall wellbeing
(e.g. ability to cope, worry, frustration, confidence, self-esteem, psychological status) | Cognitive functioning | - cognitive function (e.g. memory lapse, lack of concentration, attention)
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Infection |
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Types | Examples |
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- Infection
- Infectious diseases
| Sepsis | Bacteraemia | Specific infectious diseases e.g. malaria | Markers of infection e.g. parasitaemia | Viral load | HIV status |
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Mental health |
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Mental Health | depression | any mental health-related conditions |
| addiction | assessments of signs or symptoms relating to these conditions |
| psychosis |
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Mortality |
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| All Cause Mortality | Overall Mortality | All Cause Survival | Overall Survival | Cause-specific survival | Cause-specific mortality |
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Pain |
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| Pain | Pain Scores | Pain Measures | Pain Scales |
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Physiological or clinical |
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Signs & symptoms | - presence of disease or symptoms
- absence of disease or symptoms
- remission
- duration of symptoms
- number of relapses
- improvement
- no improvement
- clinical success
- person’s own view of general health
| Biological Markers | - blood components
- tissue analysis
- urinalysis
- bacteriological measures
- microbial measures
- oxygen saturation
- arterial blood gas test
- cholesterol
| General physical health measures | - blood pressure
- respiratory and
- heart rates
- BMI, lung
- function measures
- infant weight
- oxygen saturation
- fingerclip
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Psychosocial |
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Type | Example |
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| social problems | smoking cessation | smoking abstinence | Levels of maternal inconvenience | number of parental visits | mother's view of a child | parent-child interaction | Consumption of healther food, drink etc. |
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Quality of Life |
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Type | Example |
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| health-related quality of life (HRQL) | quality of life |
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Resource use |
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Economic | - Cost analysis
- general costs
| Hospital | - inpatient or day case hospital care (e.g. duration of hospital stay, admission to ICU)
- number of admissions
- readmission following treatment
| Operative | - surgical procedures (e.g. caesarean delivery, time to transplantation)
- number of procedures
| Medication | - medication (e.g. concomitant medications, pain relief, rescue medication, medication errors)
- need for additional drugs or “dose of drug”
| Societal/carer burden | - financial or time implications on carer or society as a whole (e.g. need for home help, entry to institutional care, effect on family income, care burden)
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Satisfaction with care |
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Type | Examples |
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| patient's views about the services they receive | clinician's assessment of adequacy of care or appropriateness of treatment | Carer's views on treatment received by those being care for |
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Withdrawals or dropouts from study |
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| Dropouts | Withdrawals | Cancellations |
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