Across rheumatic diseases

Stakeholder endorsement advancing the implementation of a patient-reported domain for harms in rheumatology clinical trials: Outcome of the OMERACT Safety Working Group

Semin Arthritis RheumPublished Qualitative study and consensus meeting report

Authors' conclusion

We present a definition of safety/harms that represents the patient voice (i.e., patients' perception of safety) evaluating the symptomatic treatment-related adverse events for people with RMDs enrolled in clinical trials.

Study context

Population
Patients involved in clinical trials for their rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs); OMERACT community
Participants
34 interviewed patients
Outcome
Patient-reported safety/harms domain
Methodological detailspatient interviews, OMERACT Special Interest Group, Interview results presented and discussed at OMERACT 2023
  • Patient interviews
  • OMERACT Special Interest Group
  • Interview results presented and discussed at OMERACT 2023

Recommendations

As reported in the abstract

SIG participants endorsed that enough qualitative data are available to start Delphi survey(s)

96 %

Original publication

Stakeholder endorsement advancing the implementation of a patient-reported domain for harms in rheumatology clinical trials: Outcome of the OMERACT Safety Working Group. Semin Arthritis Rheum. Published 26 October 2023. doi:10.1016/j.semarthrit.2023.152288

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