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Table 4 Showing voting outcomes following round 3 survey of working group members. The % refers to the proportion of those who voted in support of each item

From: Standard set of health outcome measures for older persons

Round 3

Percent

Include

 Overall survival

71

 Falls resulting in seeking medical attention

71

 Polypharmacy (added in the third round)

75

Inconclusive

 Confidence in ability to access information and advice when needed

54

 Confidence in ability to access appropriate healthcare

63

 Confidence in understanding of own health

58

 Complications from treatment

54

Excluded

 Feeling safe (generally)

42

 Feeling safe within a healthcare organisation (added in the third round)

38

 Overall burden of all physical symptoms

46

 Continence

38

 General experience of healthcare

29

 Contact with healthcare (emergency service/doctor/nurse/outpatient clinic)

38

 Pressure ulcers

46

 Adverse medication effects

46