Lost Opportunities Concerning Loss-to-Follow-up: A Response to Elul et al

Public Participation: Methods Matter; A Response to Boaz et al.

Lost to follow-up.

results gained from primary attenders at a tate review clinic after shoulder surgery may not be representative of the outcome: the average self-assessment of the non-attenders was lower by one class. Age differences have been shown to affect the self assessment of health (Idler 1993). In this study, however, with an average age of 5 1.1 years among attenders and 48.8 years in non-attenders, thi...

Loss to follow-up

Why do these situations make a difference? Because in each situation, those lost to follow-up often have a different prognosis than those who complete the study. For example, patients who receive treatment for cervical myelopathy may not return for follow-up because they became asymptomatic and felt no need to return to see the surgeon. Conversely, some patients may not return because they had ...

Response to Hofmann et al

same RHAMM1v4 isoform expressed in the same cells RHAMM belongs to a group of hyaladherins that reguwas later reported to be located exclusively in the cytolate cell motility and cell cycle and that are expressed plasm (Zhang et al., 1998). in the cytoplasm, nucleus, and cell surface, in spite of Questions about the physiological significance of the a lack of signal peptide or transmembrane dom...

Response to Gayat et al.