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
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

Atkins et al. BMC Health Services Research 2005 5:25   doi:10.1186/1472-6963-5-25