Since pCR is only achieved in up to 30%% of patients, we think that a minimum number of ten patients is too low to accurately use pCR as a study outcome.
Here we focus on the selective reporting of outcomes from those that were originally measured within a study; outcome reporting bias (ORB).
Both "definite" and "probable" infections will constitute a study outcome.
For these reasons, we did not consider it to be reliable as a study outcome.
Generally, help-seeking behavior has been selected as a study outcome.
In addition we did not document illness duration prior to presentation as a study outcome.
Mixed findings emerged with regard to QOL as a study outcome.
Tooth loss as a study outcome is an irreversible event; in other words, it is cumulative in extent and prevalence.
We considered only the first admission for a study outcome in patients who had multiple admissions during the study period.
Incident AGW cases in the non-AGW group will be counted, with incident AGW treated as a study outcome.
Thirdly, the self controlled case series design assumes that a study outcome does not censor patient follow-up.
