Under current practice, device studies may be closed or categorized as "failures" before knowledge embedded in them can be fully mined.
At discharge each patient was categorized as have completed the trial, as a treatment failure, as an unresolved diarrhea situation, or as a withdrawal.
All adverse events were categorized as mild.
For fracture mode analysis, each specimen was observed at 20× magnification under a light stereomicroscope, and the failure modes were categorized as adhesive (failure at the composite-enamel interface), cohesive in enamel, or mixed failure.
If the fracture occurred within the ceramic, it was categorized as cohesive failure, and if the fracture occurred within both the ceramic and the resin cement, it was deemed a mixed failure.
A 3X return on an investment for a billion-dollar fund fails to move the needle and could easily be categorized as a failure, but with a $50-$50-$100 milliond, the economics are a bit more fundiving.
Moreover, if Obama had proposed $1.2 trillion but only obtained $800 billion, it would have been categorized as a failure.
Seventy five patients (71.4%) completed treatment or were cured, 26 (24.8%) defaulted or were LTFU, 3 (2.8%) died, and 1 (1.0%) patient was categorized as treatment failure.
All Ct-values < mean + 2SD were categorized as virological failure.
Such patients often were treated as tuberculosis which did not respond and categorized as treatment failure.
The indication for LTX was categorized as liver failure, hepatocellular carcinoma or poor quality of life (severe fatigue or pruritus).
