Ocelot OUTCOME Class Documentation

Class OUTCOME

Documentation: "A characteristic of the study population evaluated in the course of the trial."

Template Slots

Slot name Documentation Type Allowed Values/Classes Cardinality Default

unit "The unit of the outcome value, e.g., feet or mmHg. Should come from a controlled vocabulary." STRING 0:1

comment-on-efficacy-results STRING 0:1

outcome-assessment "Details about the assessment of this outcome." Instance Outcome-assessment 0:1

term-information "Pointer to a UMLS preferred term or terms, if available, that capture the major clinical concepts in this data class (e.g, diabetes mellitus)." Instance Term-information 1:*

special-variable-information "Points to additional information relevant to special classes of variables (e.g., discount rate for cost variables)" Instance Special-variable-information 0:1

comment-on-outcome "Comment on selection, importance, etc. of outcome." STRING 0:1

comment-on-itt-subgroup-results STRING 0:1

name "A 'pretty name' for referring to this entity." STRING 0:1

statistical-analyses-and-results "Pointer to the description of how this outcome will be statistically analyzed." Instance Statistical-analysis-and-results

type-of-outcome SYMBOL Continuous Categorical Proportion Rate Count Cost Life-Years Scored Instrument 0:1

comment-on-itt-results STRING 0:1

comment-on-efficacy-subgroup-results STRING 0:1

description-of-outcome "Text definition of this outcome." STRING 0:1

protocol-changes Instance Protocol-change

roles "Tells which class and slot will take instances of this class depending on the role of the instance. The format is (role OWNER-CLASS |owner-slot|) e.g., if this class is DATE and the instance's role is recruitment-start-date, (recruitment-start-date RECRUITMENT |start-date|) tells us that this instance of date should be the value of the slot |start-date| in an instance of class RECRUITMENT." SYMBOL 0:1

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Template Slots
Slot name	Documentation	Type	Allowed Values/Classes	Cardinality	Default
unit	"The unit of the outcome value, e.g., feet or mmHg. Should come from a controlled vocabulary."	STRING		0:1
comment-on-efficacy-results		STRING		0:1
outcome-assessment	"Details about the assessment of this outcome."	Instance	Outcome-assessment	0:1
term-information	"Pointer to a UMLS preferred term or terms, if available, that capture the major clinical concepts in this data class (e.g, diabetes mellitus)."	Instance	Term-information	1:*
special-variable-information	"Points to additional information relevant to special classes of variables (e.g., discount rate for cost variables)"	Instance	Special-variable-information	0:1
comment-on-outcome	"Comment on selection, importance, etc. of outcome."	STRING		0:1
comment-on-itt-subgroup-results		STRING		0:1
name	"A 'pretty name' for referring to this entity."	STRING		0:1
statistical-analyses-and-results	"Pointer to the description of how this outcome will be statistically analyzed."	Instance	Statistical-analysis-and-results
type-of-outcome		SYMBOL	Continuous Categorical Proportion Rate Count Cost Life-Years Scored Instrument	0:1
comment-on-itt-results		STRING		0:1
comment-on-efficacy-subgroup-results		STRING		0:1
description-of-outcome	"Text definition of this outcome."	STRING		0:1
protocol-changes		Instance	Protocol-change
roles	"Tells which class and slot will take instances of this class depending on the role of the instance. The format is (role OWNER-CLASS \|owner-slot\|) e.g., if this class is DATE and the instance's role is recruitment-start-date, (recruitment-start-date RECRUITMENT \|start-date\|) tells us that this instance of date should be the value of the slot \|start-date\| in an instance of class RECRUITMENT."	SYMBOL		0:1