Rawls and other social contract theorists adopted a broad outcome metric for assessing the comparative advantage of the individual in a society – a metric that includes opportunities, basic rights, and the social bases of self-respect.
It is possible that a single 'teamwork' or 'communication' intervention could by itself reduce multiple types of AEs or even impact a broad outcome such as hospital mortality.
The search terms were selected using an iterative process of maximising yield and were based on the population (ergonomic, seated, workers) and the intervention (chair, ergonomic) with a broad outcome (musculoskeletal) in line with standard search criteria.
But why are Americans complaining about a broader economic outcome that -- in principle -- was strongly desired just a year ago?
Furthermore, we used a rather broad outcome measure, defined as a minimum of one positive rating on a G section item, representing psychotic experiences rather than clinically relevant psychotic disorder.
Although the investigators used a broad primary outcome, they had only 19 events, putting the multivariable model at risk of an overfitted result.
Framed as challenges for future development, these include the notion that dementia is a broad clinical outcome produced by underlying but heterogeneous neuropathological pathways.
On a broad scale, outcome reporting also facilitates dissemination of best practices between physicians and makes it possible to compare the quality delivered by different providers, allowing patients to make intelligent choices about where to seek care (Porter and Teisberg 2004).
Future research may therefore include both health as well as broader outcomes in a ranking-based study.
