an endpoint measuring an outcome that can be measured earlier than an effect on final outcome and that is considered reasonably likely to predict the interventions effect on final outcome (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK326791/)
Examples include fruit and vegetable intake in trials of prevention of cardiovascular events; exercise tolerance in trials of device treatments for heart failure; progression free survival for overall survival in cancer
INTERMEDIATE OUTCOME
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