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Alongside this inconsistency in the measurement of outcomes, outcome-reporting bias adds further to the problems faced by users of research who wish to make well-informed decisions about health care. Outcome-reporting bias has been defined as the selection of a subset of the original recorded outcomes, on the basis of the results, for inclusion in the published reports of trials and other research [18]. Empirical evidence shows that outcomes that are statistically significant are more likely to be fully reported [19]. Selective reporting of outcomes means that fully informed decisions cannot be made about the care of patients, resource allocation, research priorities and study design. This can lead to the use of ineffective or even harmful interventions, and to the waste of health care resources that are already limited [20].

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One of the aims of the COMET Initiative is to provide a means of identifying existing, ongoing and planned COS studies. COS developers should be encouraged to register their project in a free-to-access, unrestricted public repository, such as the COMET database, which is the only such repository we are aware of.

The scope of the systematic review should be carefully considered in the context of the COS to ensure that outcomes are included from all relevant studies without unnecessary data collection. The clinical area should be clearly defined and appropriate databases accessed accordingly. Commonly used databases include Medline, CINAHL, Embase, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and PsycINFO. In the systematic reviews of COS [14, 39], 57 (25%) studies carried out a review of outcomes [65]. The number of databases searched was not reported for 17 studies (30%), and two studies did not perform an electronic database search. Thirty-eight studies described which databases they searched (Table 1).

Similarly, it is necessary to systematically review the academic literature to identify Patient-reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) and then extract patient-reported outcome domains. These come from existing PROMs often at the level of the individual questionnaire item [86]. This is recommended because the scale name used in PROMs and the scores attributed to the combined items are often found to be inconsistent. Therefore, analyses at a granular level are recommended [86]. The full process for this is described in Fig. 1 of the paper by Macefield et al. At this stage it is worth extracting details of the patient-reported outcome development and validity which will be helpful when selecting measures with which to assess the core outcomes.

The review of existing knowledge, and research to fill gaps in that knowledge, has the potential to result in a long list of items. Consideration is needed regarding whether to retain the full list in the consensus exercise or whether to reduce the size of the list using explicit criteria. Preparatory work on how best to explain the importance of scoring all items on the list may help to improve levels of participation.

It is important for all participants to be fully aware of the purpose of the Delphi survey and what will be expected of them. This is crucial both in terms of enabling informed consent and equipping participants to be able to prioritise and score outcomes. The notion of a COS and even an outcome may not be clear to all. Participant Information Sheets may need to use different terminology for different stakeholder groups and should be piloted in advance. Plain language summaries for patients and carers, including a description of an outcome, a COS and a Delphi survey, are available on the COMET Initiative website [109].

Good facilitation is crucial, regardless of whether separate or combined consensus meetings are held. The preparation and support of patient participants both before and during the meeting is also vital. Consideration needs to be given to the specific needs of the patient group as they may have particular requirements to enable them to fully participate. The common principles in ensuring an accessible venue obviously apply, but there may be other considerations; for example, fatigue or pain from prolonged sitting need to be considered in planning such meetings. De Witt et al. (2013) provide information on barriers to participation for patients with rheumatological conditions in a face-to-face consensus meeting and make recommendations for facilitating their participation [141].

Qualitative study findings can also illuminate why outcomes are important to patients, which may usefully inform the final stages of COS development if there is divergence between stakeholders about which outcomes are core and which are not.

There was an increase in the proportion of randomised trials measuring the COS items over time, with almost 70% measuring all these outcomes in trials that were published at the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. Of the trialists who did not measure the full COS, the survey revealed that most were unaware of the COS when selecting outcomes to measure. Amongst those who were aware of the COS, two did not measure all of the outcomes because their trials focussed mainly on safety, one did measure all outcomes but failed to report one of them and one had already selected the outcomes for their trial before the COS was published.

Currently, the explicit use of COS in systematic reviews seems rare. The aforementioned study of Bain et al. assessed the use of the WOMBAT standard measures in Cochrane protocols and reviews for gestational maternal diabetes [171] and fuller surveys of all Cochrane reviews that were first published in 2007 (387 reviews), 2011 (401) and 2013 (439) investigated the choice of outcomes more generally [101, 185]. This research found that none of these 1227 reviews cited a COS when discussing the choice of outcomes investigated in the review. The reviews included a total of nearly 9800 outcomes, with the most recent sample (reviews published for the first time in 2013) ranging from three reviews that assessed just one outcome measure to a review with 62 outcome measures. The median number of outcomes was seven. As noted above, COS might be particularly useful for Cochrane reviews during the selection of outcomes to include in the SoF developed by the GRADE Working Group to summarise the results for important outcomes and the quality of this evidence. These tables were introduced to Cochrane reviews in 2008, and were included in 112 (31%) of the 361 full reviews published for the first time in 2011 that contained at least one included study, rising to 57% (216 of 375 reviews) in 2013 [185].

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