Table 1.

Ordinal Outcomes for Efficacy, Safety, and Benefit-Risk Analyses With Categories in Ascending Order of Desirability

Analysis	Outcomes
Efficacy	1. Hospital death 2. Alive in hospital or discharged not to home 3. Discharged home
Safety	1. Hospital death 2. Not observed to die, with incident renal failure 3. Not observed to die, without incident renal failure
Benefit-risk	1. Hospital death 2. Alive in hospital or discharged not to home, incident renal failure 3. Alive in hospital or discharged not to home, no incident renal failure 4. Discharged home