It is important for surgeons to have current information on prosthesis outcomes, to enable them to select the best-performing devices for their patients.
In the NHS Outcomes Framework policy [ 1], the UK government highlighted the importance of assessing outcomes to enable measurement of the effectiveness of services.
17 These results suggested that there were sufficient differences between the positive and negative Treatment Outcomes to enable the Discriminant Analysis to differentiate between them.
This will include number, severity, medications prescribed and outcomes to enable, where possible, details to be confirmed by review of medical records or, if deterioration results in admission, review of hospital records.
This will include how they work in practice and their intended and unintended outcomes to enable NHS decision makers and policy makers to have an understanding of the range of strategies available, and the core assumptions about how they are supposed to work.
For these analyses, we constructed standard deviation score values ((observed value−mean)/SD) for the childhood outcome measures to enable comparison of effect estimates for the different outcomes.
If the original paper did not provide adequate information on the designated main outcome measure to enable data extraction, that trial's outcome was classified as 'not estimable' and a further potentially estimable outcome was not sought.
