Table 3.

Patient-oriented outcome measures (i.e. survival and neurological/functional status) used in 13 randomized controlled trials of post-ROSC interventions. This table displays the outcome measures listed in Table 2, the frequency of use of each measure as the primary or secondary outcomes, and the frequency with which each measure was reported anywhere in the results section of the manuscripts.

OUTCOME MEASURE	#TRIALS USING THE OUTCOME (PRIMARY OR SECONDARY)	# TRIALS REPORTING THE OUTCOME ANYWHERE IN THE RESULTS
Neurological and functional status (n, %)
Cerebral Performance Category
Treated as ordinal variable
Serial (repeated measures over time)	2 (15)	2 (15)
Best score over 180 days	1 (8)	1 (8)
Best score over one year	1 (8)	1 (8)
Treated as dichotomous variable (good=1 or 2)
180 days	3 (23)	3 (23)
One year	1 (8)	1 (8)
Glasgow Coma Scale(repeated measures)	1 (8)	2 (15)
Glasgow-Pittsburgh Coma Score (repeated measures)	1 (8)	1 (8)
Awakening (speech or following commands)
90 days	1 (8)	1 (8)
Time to awakening	2 (15)	2 (15)
Overall Performance Category (or Glasgow Outcomes Scale)
Treated as ordinal variable
Serial (repeated measures over time)	1 (8)	1 (8)
90 days	1 (8)	1 (8)
One year	2 (15)	2 (15)
Treated as dichotomous variable (good=1 or 2)
One year	1 (8)	1 (8)
Assessment of functional independence
Able to be discharged to home/rehabilitation	1 (8)	1 (8)
Regained pre-arrest functional status
120 days	1 (8)	1 (8)
Independent functional status
90 days	1 (8)	1 (8)
Survival (n, %)
To intensive care unit discharge	1 (8)	1 (8)
To hospital discharge	1 (8)	4 (31)
30 days	1 (8)	2 (15)
90 days	1 (8)	3 (23)
180 days	3 (23)	4 (31)
One year	1 (8)	2 (15)