Etiological relations were classified on an ordinal scale as: unlikely, possible, probable and likely.
The 5-categories scale (consisting of "Unlikely," "Possible," "Probable," "Highly likely" and "Definite") has been favored by DILIN and other academic investigators.
To examine the understanding of percentages, patients were required to place a mark on a 10 cm line marked out 0100%00%, which they felt best described the percentage chance of a hypothetical patient being alive in 10 years based on 8 verbal descriptions (Good, Somewhat unlikely, Poor, Probable, Almost certain, Almost impossible, Improbable and Somewhat likely).
As the unlikely became probable, the swagger that characterized Louisville's run sagged.
The classification scheme for involvement of hypoglycaemia in the death had four categorical levels: unlikely; possible; probable; and definite.
15 The outcome was recorded in the form of continuous categorical data (ie, unlikely, possible, probable, definite) then collapsed to produce a binary outcome.
The duration of antibiotic therapy in the standard group is based on the attending physician's assessment of the likelihood of infection (infection unlikely, possible, probable or proven).
Allergy classes were reduced to two levels, severe or moderate vs none for analyses of asthma, atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and high probability vs probable and unlikely for atopic tendency.
To acknowledge the skewed distributions of exposures of nurses to antineoplastic agents [ 17], and to ensure that only those with reasonable possibilities of exposure were attributed exposure-time, a multiplicative weighting (0.00, 0.0625, 0.25, and 1.00) was assigned to the exposure probabilities from the algorithm (none, unlikely, possible, and probable exposure, respectively).
The severity, likely relationship with study drug (unrelated, unlikely, possible or probable), changes in study medication, outcome and whether serious or not, were also recorded.
