Table 3 Summary of the judgements made by the 17 evaluators for Example 1 of the pilot study. Should depressed patients in primary care be treated with SSRIs rather than tricyclics?
Rater | Quality of outcome | Relative importance of outcome | Overall quality | Balance benefits vs harm | Recommendation | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Depression severity | Transient side effects | Poisining fatalities | Depression severity | Transient side effects | Poisining fatalities | ||||
1 | H | H | Vl | 7 | 9 | 9 | H or Vl | Uncertain net benefit | Don't do it |
2 | M | M | Vl | 9 | 6 | 7 | Vl | Net benefit | Probably do it |
3 | H | H | M | 8 | 7 | 9 | H | Uncertain net benefit | Toss up |
4 | H | H | L | 6 | 5 | 6 | |||
5 | M | M | M | 9 | 6 | 8 | M | Net benefit | Do it |
6 | M | M | Vl | 9 | 6 | 9 | Vl | Net benefit | Do it |
7 | M | M | L | 8 | 7 | 8 | L | Net benefit | Do it |
8 | H | H | Vl | 9 | 5 | 3 | H | Net benefit | Probably do it |
9 | M | M | L | 9 | 6 | 8 | L | Net benefit | Probably do it |
10 | M | M | L | 9 | 7 | 8 | L | Net benefit | Probably do it |
11 | H | H | L | 8 | 5 | 7 | L | Trade offs | Probably do it |
12 | H | H | L | 8 | 5 | 7 | L | Trade offs | Probably do it |
13 | M | H | M | 9 | 7 | 9 | M | Net benefit | Do it |
14 | M | M | L | 9 | 9 | 5 OR 9 | M | Net benefit | Probably do it |
15 | M | M | Vl | 9 | 6 | 8 | Vl | Uncertain net benefit | Toss up |
16 | M | M | Vl | 9 | 5 | 9 | Vl | Not net benefit | Don't do it |
17 | M | M | M | 9 | 9 | 9 | M | Net benefit | Toss up |