"The outcome I want is the pain to go away" (Patient 26) Four sub-outcome themes emerged under this heading, including pain or discomfort, depression or anxiety, side-effects of medication and other symptoms.
We divided the perceived outcomes theme into perceived positive reactions, perceived negative reactions, and perceived absence/mitigation of negative reactions based on how the respondents characterized their experiences.
Main Outcome Measures: Themes that emerged from the interviews regarding the strengths and weaknesses of and ways to improve the program.
Key outcomes and themes were identified and tabulated to produce a balance sheet of the advantages and disadvantages of the FEST intervention.
Qualitative studies will be evaluated by identifying the key outcomes and themes presented by each study (eg, reported barriers and facilitators to discharge tool utilisation), preserving the meaning from their original source and tabulating them within the review.
40 The table for the qualitative and uncontrolled observational studies will include the authors' references, country, study designs, chronic condition, sample size, gender, age range, socioeconomic status, study objectives, setting (rural vs urban), data collection format, outcomes or themes.
