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18.11.2020 | Concise Communication
Core outcome sets and core outcome measures: a primer
verfasst von:
Murad Alam, Sarah A. Ibrahim, Bianca Y. Kang, Arianna F. Yanes, Bharat B. Mittal, Daniel I. Schlessinger, David Zloty, Emily Poon, Erica H. Lee, Joseph F. Sobanko, Naomi Lawrence, Ramona Behshad, Ian A. Maher
Erschienen in:
Archives of Dermatological Research
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Ausgabe 4/2022
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Excerpt
Many questions regarding optimal therapeutics for specific patient problems remain to be answered. Clinical trials to address such questions may not be available. If they are, these trials may be underpowered due to the expense and logistical complexity of larger, multicenter trials. Pooling the results of small trials of the same therapy or intervention in a meta-analysis may also be fraught. Often, such trials assess subtly different outcomes, and therefore data cannot be combined or added together. Even if the outcomes are the same across trials, the specific outcome measures used to quantify them may not be. …