Table 1.

Characteristics of Specialist Cohort Event Monitoring (SCEM) design

Study characteristic	SCEM
Setting	Secondary care
HCPs	Specialists
Design	Observational
Treatment	Naturalistic
Period of observation	Immediately post-start of treatment; the duration depends on the study question(s)
Ethics	Patient consent required
Risk level of patient	More likely to capture high-risk patients with more severe disease
Data source	Secondary use of data from existing medical records
Comparator	Standard care, other or none; the choice depends on the study question

HCP health care professional