Events checklist
This checklist has been contributed by Dave Sackett, ( www.davesackett.com ) 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 capture
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 page was last updated 19th October 2004.