The most important barriers were the fact that, for many health concepts, outcome measures do not yet exist, as well as issues related to accessibility of instruments.
This study confirmed previous findings [20, 26- 28] that women can differentiate between the concepts "outcome efficacy" and "self-efficacy expectations".
The Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test indicated that the women could differentiate between the concepts outcome expectancy and self-efficacy expectatancy and between the two labour stages, active stage and the second stage of labour.
Good medicinal chemistry design, taking into account both potency at the target and also the predictive toxicology discussed in this chapter, increases the probability of a project's success and heavily influences speed of reaching a clear proof of concept outcome.
Our primary aim was to examine how the concepts "subjective outcome" and "objective outcome" are defined in methodological publications and clinical trial reports.
Equilibrium concepts characterize outcomes of noncooperative games.
The studies were heterogeneous in defining concepts and outcomes, replicated with ambiguous results, and underpowered.
The ten elements of successful priority setting in our framework have been organized into two types: process concepts and outcome concepts.
Within this context we can see that the concept of outcomes, as an 'endpoint', reflects the theoretical assumptions of the intervention being evaluated and the research question being addressed and that it has been applied using a patient-centred approach.
There is a growing awareness that age per se is a less important determinant of choice of therapy concepts and outcome in older cancer patients than physical status, functional status, and mental/emotional status.
Our own research into patients' experiences of complex interventions leads us to believe that a critical analysis of the concept of outcomes will assist in identifying and better understanding the challenges that we all face, in whatever discipline, in measuring outcomes appropriately.
