Outcome measures included primary response, antibiotic switch (secondary response), relapse peritonitis, repeat peritonitis, Tenckhoff catheter removal, and mortality.
Measures included primary-a validated measure of QOL at the end of life and secondary-Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General, anxiety (Profile of Mood States), depression (Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scand), and spiritual well-being (Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well-Being).
Treatment group differences in categorical efficacy measures, including the primary efficacy outcome, were analysed using Fisher exact tests.
Behavioral measures, including the primary outcome and several indicators of HIV-related risk, were collected through an interviewer administered, standardized questionnaire.
Arising from this discussion they summarized established preventive measures including general, primary, and secondary preventive strategies before covering novel and emerging therapeutic targets such as PKC inhibitors, VEGF inhibitors, and ACE inhibitors and drugs such as antioxidants.
See table 2 for a description of all measures, including the primary and secondary outcomes, predictor variables and general descriptive information (eg, sociodemographic and clinical history characteristics), and the time points at which they were assessed.
We present the methodology for measurements of the study variables below including primary outcome measure (i.e., change in infant weight-for-length z-score,WLZ); primary independent variable (i.e., breastfeeding intensity and duration); and intrauterine exposures, sociodemographics and lifestyle covariates.
Previous studies have focused on the ability to predict clinical tumour shrinkage, despite the fact that local response is a crude measure dependent on several variables including primary tumour size, oedema, necrosis and subjective variation in tumour measurements.
Productivity measures included gross primary production (GPP), total belowground carbon allocation (TBCA), bole growth, and net ecosystem production (NEP).
The outcome measures included both primary and secondary measures.
