This requires first and foremost admitting to the failure of the costly policies of attrition, which have a moral, humanitarian, as well as material toll.
Therefore, in this study, we estimated the attrition rate of HIV patients on ART in the region and attempted to identify predictors of such attrition, including facility type, which has not been studied previously.
Furthermore, we found associations between a potentially important cycle of attrition, and poorer EDQoL, which has not been previously reported.
These drop-outs accumulate over time and lead to attrition of the initial cohort, which has fewer and fewer participants as time goes by.
The Police Department -- which has shrunk through attrition by a few thousand officers, to around 36,500 -- is being asked to reduce its budget by roughly $40 million.
In oncology, where the rate of successful drug development is less than 5%, a major reason for drug attrition is lack of clinical efficacy, which has a strong correlation with drug potency.
This paper demonstrates the use of relative attrition as a new tool in systematic review methodology which has the potential to identify patient, intervention and trial characteristics which influences attrition in trials.
But to some, the move looks like a stunt or a last gasp for the comic book industry, which has been dealing with reader attrition.
We performed a complete case analysis which has the potential to introduce attrition bias if the excluded individuals are systematically different from those included.
Saturday's carnage was the latest bloodshed in one of the most violent stretches of the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has become a virtual war of attrition.
