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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 May 20.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Microbiol Infect. 2023 Apr 9;29(8):955–958. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.04.004

Table 1.

Desirability of Outcomes Ranking (DOOR) for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia trials


Possible Unfavorable Outcomes
Rank Alive Treatment failure Infectious Complications Ongoing Symptoms Grade 4 Adverse Events
1 (most desirable) Yes 0 of 4

2 Yes Any 1 of 4

3 Yes Any 2 of 4

4 Yes Any 3 of 4

5 Yes 4 of 4

6 (least desirable) No Any

Adapted from ( 4 )