The Adverse Event Unit (AEU): A novel metric to measure the burden of treatment adverse events.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To design a physician and patient derived tool, the Adverse Event Unit (AEU), akin to currency (e.g. U.S. Dollar), to improve AE burden measurement independent of any particular disease or medication class.

Patients/methods

A Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) online survey was administered to United States physicians with board certification or board eligibility in general neurology, subspecialty neurology, primary care internal medicine or family medicine, subspecialty internal medicine, general pediatrics, and subspecialty pediatrics. Physicians assigned value to 73 AE categories chosen from the Common Terminology Criteria of Adverse Events (CTCAE) relevant to neurologic disorder treatments. An online forced choice survey was administered to non-physician

SUBMITTER: Hehir MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8853570 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature