The phrase "a harmful outcome" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the negative consequences or effects of an action, decision, or event.
Example: "The experiment was halted to prevent a harmful outcome that could affect the environment."
Alternatives: "a detrimental result" or "a negative consequence."
But at least one study found that the derogatory labeling produced more punitive responses from adults and lowered their expectations of the children in itself a harmful outcome. .
When it comes to definitively linking an ingredient to a harmful outcome, scientific standards require rigorous testing procedures that are difficult to fund.
For example, enhanced responsiveness of VS motivational neurocircuitry toward reward-predictive cues may bias behavior choice toward potentially-rewarding activities, irrespective of potential for a harmful outcome.
Central to this is the potential to address the issue of optimistic bias, the underestimation of one's own risk of a harmful outcome relative to the average smoker.
Fourthly, while reduction in a harmful outcome is beneficial, the analysis does not consider other benefits of therapy, such as pain relief, functioning, and quality of life.
The second sensitivity analysis is a 'worst-best-case' scenario where it is assumed that all participants lost to follow-up in the experimental group have had a harmful outcome; and that all those lost to follow-up in the control group have had a beneficial outcome.
The main one arises when the intervention causes a "positive" response on the surrogate but has no effect, or a harmful effect, on the clinical outcome, or vice versa.
Yet, when push comes to shove, country after country is being dragged into abetting a potentially harmful outcome for the global economy as a whole.
H.L.A. Hart puts this conclusion in the form of a rhetorical question: "Why should the accidental fact that an intended harmful outcome has not occurred be a ground for punishing less a criminal who may be equally dangerous and equally wicked?" (1968, 129).
For statistically significant results, we will calculate the number needed to treat for an additional beneficial outcome (NNTB) and the number needed to treat for an additional harmful outcome (NNTH).
Some interventions do require an exhaustive analysis of all harmful outcomes, but for others adverse effects require a less thorough investigation.
