Events checklist

This checklist has been contributed by Dave Sackett, who prepared it for the forthcoming 3rd edition of Clinical Epidemiology; A Basic Science for Answering Questions about Health Care, to be published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins in 2005.

• Based on your question, decide which events you want to determine for both benefit and harm.
• Generate objective and precise criteria for these events.
• Decide how, when and by whom to ascertain the occurrence of these events.
• Consider event-hierarchies
• Decide how and to whom these events will be reported.
• If required for validity or credibility, set up a system for adjudicating these events.
• Based on your question, decide whether any events will be ineligible for the analysis, and develop a plan for their bias-free removal.
  

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This document was last updated on 1st July 2003.