The phrase "avoiding declining" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of preventing a decrease or downturn, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The company is focused on avoiding declining sales by implementing new marketing strategies."
Alternatives: "preventing a decline" or "stopping a downturn".
You cannot avoid declining vision.
Describing the startup's customers as "payments solutions trying to avoid declining good people, and P2P services wanting to increase trust and keep their users safe," Groth cites competitors as Socure, and Trustev.
Finally, when indirect and informal costs were added (by doubling the cost per relapse to £4,724 €7,5722)) the cost per relapse avoided declined from £11,000 (€17,631) to £8,632€13,83636), and cost per QALY declined to £17,733 (€28,423) in the base case.
Participants strongly prioritized improving patients' health rather than avoiding decline.
The remaining subjects (23%) favored cure or avoiding decline depending on the respective health state.
8 responders (6%) gave equal priority to improvements in health and avoiding decline in all comparisons.
There was no significant association between sex, employment-status, education or professional background and preferences towards cure or avoiding decline.
Using the rules on relative size given above, a reversal was defined as either an avoided decline that was ranked higher than an improvement of a greater change (reversal in favor of avoiding decline) or as an improvement that was attached higher priority than an avoided decline of larger size (reversal in favor of curative treatment).
Other qualitative comments suggest, that preferences for improving patients' health rather than avoiding decline might in part be caused by fairness concerns.
This "weight for avoided decline" (WAD) for the distance between health states B and C is defined as: If, for example, participants indicated by their answers, that they were indifferent between improving the health of 100 patients from health state C to B and avoiding decline from B to C in 80 persons, then WADB,C = 1.25.
