Publications per outcome category by 5 year period
| Summary outcome | 1980–84 | 1985–89 | 1990–94 | 1995–99 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| *This category refers to days in a state or days absent from a state, time to achieve an outcome, or time to recover. | ||||||||||
| Cases of disease/condition/abnormality | 32 | 42 | 63 | 53 | 109 | 42 | 236 | 40 | 440 | 42 |
| Cases of death (all causes) | 11 | 14 | 23 | 19 | 39 | 15 | 61 | 10 | 134 | 13 |
| Cases of cures/improvements/healing | 13 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 29 | 11 | 55 | 9 | 103 | 10 |
| Changes in physiologic measure | 3 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 26 | 10 | 53 | 9 | 92 | 9 |
| Cases of complications/adverse events | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 7 | 60 | 10 | 90 | 9 |
| Life years gained | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 34 | 6 | 46 | 4 |
| QALYs, or similar unit | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 21 | 4 | 33 | 3 |
| Time outcome* | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 25 | 4 | 31 | 3 |
| Changes in behavioural/social | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 17 | 3 | 29 | 3 |
| Cases of vaccination | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 1 |
| Health service/process outcome | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 13 | 1 |
| Cases of injury | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 1 |
| Changes in quality of life | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Total | 76 | 100 | 119 | 100 | 259 | 100 | 585 | 100 | 1039 | 100 |