Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass; Meyers Primary Care Institute, Worcester, Mass.
Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass.
Am J Med. 2014 May;127(5):379-84. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.01.011. Epub 2014 Jan 28.
We provide an overview of the individual and combined clinical endpoints and patient-reported outcomes typically used in clinical trials and prospective epidemiological investigations. We discuss the strengths and limitations associated with the utilization of aggregated study endpoints and surrogate measures of important clinical endpoints and patient-centered outcomes. We hope that the points raised in this overview will lead to the collection of clinically rich, relevant, measurable, and cost-efficient study outcomes.
我们提供了一个临床终点和患者报告结果的概述,这些终点和结果通常用于临床试验和前瞻性流行病学研究。我们讨论了利用聚合研究终点和重要临床终点和以患者为中心的结果的替代指标的优势和局限性。我们希望在这个概述中提出的观点将导致收集临床丰富、相关、可衡量和具有成本效益的研究结果。