Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: In psychiatry, the use of rating scales as measures of outcome in clinical trials allows us to generate continuous outcome data, where each individual's outcome is measured in numbers. Continuous outcomes can be divided into two categories, such as improved and not improved, or may be kept continuous. This article briefly presents the main advantages and disadvantages of these two approaches, which are commonly employed in the analyses of rating scale scores in clinical trials and systematic reviews.
Authors: M. Purgato, C. Barbui
Institution: University of Verona
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics and Probability
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2328803923