Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Recovery
Biologic Clinical Disability
Outcome
onset Diagnosis Death
etc
Clinical courses
(medical intervention)
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• Prognostic factors:
• conditions that, when present in persons already known to
have disease, are associated with an outcome of the disease
• Risk factors:
• condition that can be identified in well persons and, when
present, are associated with an increased risk of acquiring
disease
• The Results section should identify any prognostic factors and
whether or not these have been adjusted for in the analysis.
There’s no different
prognostic factor between two
group on this study
(see result pg.26 Table 1
‘Baseline and Operative
Characteristics of the Patients’
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