title: Interactive conference voting. The OMERACT II Committee. Outcome Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trial Conference.
abstract: We describe and analyze opinion polling results from interactive voting procedures undertaken before and after presentations during the Outcome Measures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Trials Conference (OMERACT II) in Ottawa, Canada, June 30-July 2, 1994. The scoring procedure was a matched voting design; when a participant used the same keypad at the beginning and end of voting, change within a participant could be estimated. Participants, experienced in the rheumatic diseases included clinicians, researchers, methodologists, regulators, and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry. Patients under consideration were those with any rheumatic diseases. Questions were constructed to evaluate the change in voting behavior expected from the content of the presentation. Statistically significant and substantively important changes were evident in most questions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Goldsmith
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Duku
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Brooks
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boers
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Tugwell
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Baker
mesh_terms: D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000191:economics; D002170:Canada; D003201:Computers; D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care