Sentence examples for defined as lost from inspiring English sources

A recent study by Lambdin et al, in Central Mozambique, found that patients attending clinics with larger patient volumes and a larger number of patients per pharmacy staff had a higher risk of patient attrition (defined as lost to follow-up or death) [14].

Patients were defined as lost to follow-up if they had not visited a clinic for at least 3 months at the end of the observation period, consistent with common definitions for loss to follow-up in ART programmes.

Premature ovarian failure (POF) is defined as lost ovarian functions before the age of 40.

Women who migrated from the study area for 6 consecutive weeks were defined as lost to follow-up.

Patients were defined as lost to follow-up when they had a 24 month period without a weight measurement in the EHR.

Subjects who failed to respond by mail or who were not eligible to respond were defined as lost to follow-up (n = 126, 1.1%).

Addiction is defined as losing control over your behaviour and taking or using something to the point where it is debilitating and harmful, according to the NHS.

A big loss was defined as losing more than 100,000 Japanese yen (about 1000 US dollars).

The four groups had comparable primary endpoint, that is, the proportion of patients maintaining vision (defined as losing <15 letters on an ETDRS chart) at 52 weeks.

A fall was defined as "losing your balance such that your hands, arms, knees, bottom or body touch or hit the ground or floor" [ 14].

What about sex – wig on/wig off?? Just when I thought I had safely negotiated all the obstacles of wighood, I had to deal with the pain and shame of an "unwigging," which I define as losing or being unwillingly seen in public without one's wig.