Because the data were incompletely integrated, only 36% of the patients with pharmacy and laboratory data also had medical data for assessment of comorbidities.
We contacted authors or sponsors (or both) if weight data were incompletely recorded or missing but it was clear that participants had been weighed.
This issue is not unique to intervention details; a recent analysis of selective reporting bias of harms outcomes identified that harms data are incompletely reported in many primary studies and also in subsequent systematic reviews.
Sixteen patients were not injured (rescue missions) and were designated as NACA 0. One hundred and seventy patients were lost to follow-up; 35 of these were referred to other institutions in Norway or abroad during the first 30 days after treatment, the data of 118 patients was incompletely recorded, and 17 of the patients were not retrieved in the electronic medical records at all.
Whereas lapatinib, a supposed equipotent HER2 and EGFR kinase inhibitor, based on data from in vitro kinase assays, appropriately inhibited HER2 signaling, EGFR conversely was incompletely inactivated.
This complex issue was incompletely addressed under the Kyoto Protocol.
Furthermore, data are often incompletely reported, 2 3 which makes it necessary to perform calculations or impute missing data, such as missing standard deviations.
3 To assess the risk of outcome reporting bias in this context, a classification system was developed and applied when a trial was excluded from a meta-analysis either because data for the review primary outcome were not reported or because data were reported incompletely (for example, just as "not significant").
Sharing data that is incomplete, incompletely described, of poor or antiquated resolution or quality has little value.
In the meta-analysis approach taken here the contribution of EBV cannot be systematically assessed from available data since EBV status is incompletely annotated, and not necessarily assessed using both immunohistochemistry for EBV LMP1 and RNA-FISH for EBERs.
