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Table 7 Results, summary of the judgements made by the 17 evaluators about the balance between benefits and harms for each of the 12 examples in the pilot study

From: Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations II: Pilot study of a new system

Example

Net benefit

Trade offs

Uncertain net benefits

Not net benefits

Consensus

1

10/16

2/16

3/16

1/16

Net benefit

2

11/16

4/16

1/16

-

Net benefit

3

2/17

8/17

7/17

-

Need more information

4

15/16

-

1/16

-

Net benefit

5

13/17

-

4/17

-

Net benefit

6

13/17

2/17

2/17

-

Net benefit

7

4/17

3/17

9/17

1/17

Uncertain net benefits

8

7/16

-

9/16

-

Net benefit

9

2/16

8/16

6/16

-

Uncertain benefit/trade offs

10

2/17

4/17

10/17

1/17

No consensus

11

12/17

-

5/17

-

Net benefit

12

-

2/13

1/13

10/17

No consensus