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If the HRQoL data have an asymmetric distribution, then conventional statistical advice would suggest that the median is the preferred summary statistic [ 1].
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Index scores, in turn, can be used to calculate quality adjusted life years (QALYs), which is the most preferred summary outcome measure in economic evaluations [ 21].
However, of the 762 participants who indicated their preferred summary statistic after viewing all six, 393 (52%) preferred RRR, compared to the others (range 1% to 25%, p = 0.07) (Table 4).
Egger [ 10] and Engels [ 11] have argued for the use of relative measures (Odds Ratios or Risk Ratios) as a preferred summary statistic for meta-analysis, and Engels [ 11] and Deeks [ 12] have shown that Risk Differences are on average more heterogeneous than Odds Ratios and Risk Ratios when used to pool effects in meta-analyses.
Some preferred summaries, feeling that they were less burdensome.
27 28 Therefore, in summary, the preferred route of methotrexate seems to be oral, but a switch to subcutaneous is suggested in the case of an insufficient response at the highest tolerable oral dose.
A summary of the preferred reaction pathway is presented in Figure 6.
A summary of the preferred drug combinations is presented in Table 7.
If a subject experienced multiple events that mapped to a single preferred term, the greatest severity grade and strongest investigator assessment of relation to study medication was assigned to the preferred term for the appropriate summaries.
In summary, NHERF2 is the preferred ERM-binding partner over EBP50 in pulmonary aorta EC.
When a verbatim term was reported, one researcher (EM) consulted the medical coding dictionary used in the study and chose the closest matching lowest level term, and then the preferred term that was used in summary tables.
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