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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the searches

From: Review of patient-reported outcome measures in chronic hepatitis C

 

CHC PRO concept search

CHC trials with PRO endpoints search

PRO measure search

Search Specific Inclusion Criteria

CHC and over 16 years of age

CHC and over 16 years of age

CHC and over 16 years of age

Search Specific Inclusion Criteria

1999-2009

1994-2009

1999-2009

Search Specific Inclusion Criteria

Review article, qualitative research or article discussing concepts relevant to CHC disease or treatment.

· RCTs or non-randomized trials.

· Reported on the development/ validation of a PRO instrument or one of the concepts of interest selected during the CHC PRO Concept Search.

  

· Patients in at least one arm must have received pegylated interferon.

 
  

· Follow-up duration of at least 48 weeks.

· PRO instrument designed for use in CHC population or used in CHC population; if no PROs available for a particular concept of interest additional methods were utilized.

  

· PRO data must have been reported in a manner that allowed for determination of differentiation between treatments over time.

 
  1. CHC = Chronic Hepatitis C; RCT = Randomized controlled trials.