Qualitative techniques for exploring outcomes from the standpoint of participants can usefully supplement quantitative impact measurement.
Defining an ideal reference group is a challenge in studies exploring outcomes after IA.
Within the next few years, we will have data from various ongoing studies that have been funded by the National Institutes of Health and that are aimed at exploring outcomes, including psychosocial outcomes, of whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing.
Most of the existing literature exploring outcomes for specialist versus generalist care has used a dichotomous approach, ignoring the reality that many patients with chronic disease require care from more than one physician to meet their varied needs.
Several laboratories are exploring outcomes of ozone exposure including neutrophilic inflammation, cytokine production, and impaired pulmonary function, while others are testing the impact of perinatal ozone exposure, in combination with house dust mite exposure, on lung maturation and childhood asthma.
Since ADHD is a complex and heterogeneous disorder, we aimed at exploring outcomes from a broader perspective, incorporating several aspects of improvement, such as symptoms, global functioning, cognition, motor activity, institutional behaviour and quality of life.
This paper explores outcome expectations of adults of varied socioeconomic status with type 2 diabetes, examining differences between African Americans and whites.
Age was divided into six groups (0 4, 5 19, 20 29, 30 44, 45 59, 60+) to explore outcome and symptomatic differences.
Dutta and colleagues have explored outcome predictors in a developing country where access to thyroid function tests is more limited than in the Western world.
Main outcome measures: Poisson regression models were used to explore outcome measures, including socioeconomic variation in rates of anomaly; antenatal detection; pregnancy outcome; live birth incidence and neonatal mortality.
