Relevant evidence

What outcomes matter to you?

Always ask yourself whether the intervention outcomes that are important to you have been measured in fair comparisons.

Researchers may not have measured all the outcomes that matter to you in studies that compare interventions, and the ones they have measured may not matter to you.

Some studies may use scales or measures of only some symptoms that may not be very meaningful to you or may only measure outcomes right at the end of treatment, which may not tell you if the intervention will have longer lasting effects.

REMEMBER: Ask whether the outcomes that are important to you have been measured in fair comparisons of treatments, and look out for surrogate outcomes.