A difference in SDM outcomes during encounters was not detected between clinician/patient gender dyads with the exception of the outcome of concordance between stated decision and actual action taken where female clinician/male patient dyads showed borderline significant increased concordance with DA use and all other dyads showed a decrease.
With the exception of selective outcome reporting, the most frequent rating for all domains was an unclear risk of bias.
Participants in the control group receive the usual care of their LTC unit throughout the four month time period, with the exception of scheduled outcome assessments.
Our secondary outcome measures, which will be administered at baseline and at 6 months (with the exception of some outcomes as detailed below), include: Participants will rate their overall global change in a) pain and b) physical function since enrolling in the study, at 3 months and 6 months.
With the exception of adherence, all outcome measures will use a retrospective recall period of 'the past 3 months'.
Our analysis was retrospective and with the exception of aortic dissection, outcome measures were not pre-specified.
For SES the patterns were mixed (Table 3) with the exception of the RDS outcome where there was a clear increase with increasing SES.
With the exception of stroke, the outcome with fewest cases, all associations were stronger among the obese, the excursion – obesity interaction being statistically significant for the triglyceride excursion for many of the outcomes.> -wrap-foot> ELSA-Brasil, 2008 2010.
In analyses of the total sample, positive significant associations were observed for all of the disease management programs, with the exception of the CHF outcome, which did not reach statistical significance at the 95% confidence level.
Each of the dosing regimens of lumacaftor seemed to have similar efficacy, with the exception of pulmonary exacerbation outcomes, which were more favorable in the 400 mg twice-daily lumacaftor group.
