Clinical and demographic data, as well as outcome data (healing, amputation, ulcer recurrence, death), were collected continuously according to a preset standardized protocol and sampled in a study database.
Both cohorts include only cases with robust clinical, pathological and treatment data, as well as outcomes, whereas molecular data were available only on the Sydney cohort.
This suggests that using raw ChQoL data as outcomes in a clinical trial is not advisable.
These attributes support the use of routinely collected hospital administrative data as outcomes of stepped wedge trials.
Results published in abstract form (e.g., congress abstracts) were included only if they provided numerically assessable data, such as outcome data, the number of resolved DRPs, or physician acceptance rates.
Studies should not be excluded from reviews because of having" no relevant outcome data," as the outcome data may be missing as a direct result of selective outcome reporting.
This is a fully reproducible research paper; all the codes and data, as well as their outcome results, are available in the Additional files (Papacharalampous and Tyralis 2018).
The information extracted included sociodemographic, clinical, and laboratory data, as well as hospitalization outcome.
Detailed clinical, treatment and outcome data, as well as tissue samples, were collected.
Demographics and outcome data as well as indications for laparatomy stratified for the three centres are indicated in Table 1.
