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SUBMITTER: Udogwu UN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6933647 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Udogwu Ugochukwu N UN Howe Andrea A Frey Katherine K Isaac Marckenley M Connelly Daniel D Marinos Dimitrius D Baker Mitchell M Castillo Renan C RC Slobogean Gerard P GP O'Toole Robert V RV O'Hara Nathan N NN
BMC medical research methodology 20191226 1
<h4>Background</h4>This study aimed to address the current limitations of the use of composite endpoints in orthopaedic trauma research by quantifying the relative importance of clinical outcomes common to orthopaedic trauma patients and use those values to develop a patient-centered composite endpoint weighting technique.<h4>Methods</h4>A Best-Worst Scaling choice experiment was administered to 396 adult surgically-treated fracture patients. Respondents were presented with ten choice sets, each ...[more]