Re:Prevent person-to-person transmission of SARS-CoV-2
by Sebguer on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:51PM
(#24064826)
Outcomes in research papers refer to the specific values that were being measured. In this case, "wrong outcomes" means that the studies that were discarded were not measuring FOR the values that they're comparing across.
"Outcomes of interest were risk of transmission (ie, WHOdefined confirmed or probable COVID-19, SARS, or
MERS) to people in health-care or non-health-care settings
by those infected; hospitalisation; intensive care unit
admission; death; time to recovery; adverse effects of
interventions; and contextual factors such as acceptability,
feasibility, effect on equity, and resource considerations
related to the interventions of interest. However, data
were only available to analyse intervention effects for
transmission and contextual factors. Consistent with
WHO, studies generally defined confirmed cases with
laboratory confirmation (with or without symptoms) and
probable cases with clinical evidence of the respective
infection (ie, suspected to be infected) but for whom
confirmatory testing either had not yet been done for any
reason or was inconclusive."
"Outcomes of interest were risk of transmission (ie, WHOdefined confirmed or probable COVID-19, SARS, or MERS) to people in health-care or non-health-care settings by those infected; hospitalisation; intensive care unit admission; death; time to recovery; adverse effects of interventions; and contextual factors such as acceptability, feasibility, effect on equity, and resource considerations related to the interventions of interest. However, data were only available to analyse intervention effects for transmission and contextual factors. Consistent with WHO, studies generally defined confirmed cases with laboratory confirmation (with or without symptoms) and probable cases with clinical evidence of the respective infection (ie, suspected to be infected) but for whom confirmatory testing either had not yet been done for any reason or was inconclusive."