{"id":20,"date":"2016-08-05T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T18:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/mscr761\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2016-09-20T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T15:30:39","slug":"endpoints-and-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/mscr761\/endpoints-and-outcomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Endpoints and Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0ByfSbn1ITPgbVmYyY2tNRFNWUnM\" target=\"_blank\">September 13 Lecture Slides<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Jordan A. Kempker, MD, MSc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0ByfSbn1ITPgbT09CVmJNUkdZQWM\" target=\"_blank\">Endpoint Library<\/a> &#8211; I compiled a library of references pertaining to Endpoints and Outcomes that you may or may not find interesting for further reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/ndi\/index.htm\">National Death Index<\/a> &#8211; This branch of the National Center or Health Statistic&#8217;s National Vital Statistics System provides a fee-based service for investigators to help them determine the vital status of study participants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/policy\/about\/epidemiology.html\">Social Security Death Index<\/a> &#8211; The Social Security Administration also provides vital status information for health service researchers.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Proposed steps in using\u00a0a causal framework diagram for your study hypothesis to develop study outcomes\/endpoints array.<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em>(<\/em><\/span><em>disclaimer: this is my own\u00a0anecdotal\u00a0method. \u00a0There may be better ways)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">1.Draw causal diagram from intervention to most final\u00a0outcome<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">2.Include as many intermediate causal steps, surrogate measures, intermediate outcomes as possible<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">3.Include any potential adverse outcomes, competing events\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">4.Consider and annotate what\u2019s fea$ible, measurable and reliable<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">5.Consider what outcomes are important to patients (consider consulting professional societies)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">6.Select primary outcome<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">7.Secondary outcomes may be competing events, adverse events and\/or intermediate steps in the causal pathway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 13 Lecture Slides\u00a0&#8211; Jordan A. Kempker, MD, MSc Endpoint Library &#8211; I compiled a library of references pertaining to Endpoints and Outcomes that you may or may not find interesting for further reading. National<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3868,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/mscr761\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/mscr761\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/mscr761\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/mscr761\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/mscr761\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/mscr761\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/mscr761\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/mscr761\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}