The definition of a fall was broad "any unplanned unexpected contact with a supporting surface, excluding unavoidable environmental hazards" and the study excluded those who had had one or fewer falls in the previous six months.
Excluding unavoidable longitudinal attrition (N = 273, including care recipients' or caregivers' death N = 98, moved or unknown address N = 99, and hospitalization or institutionalization N = 7), 74.4% of 896 potential respondents participated.
More precisely, it excludes as unavoidable foreseen readmissions such as readmissions for transplantation, labor and delivery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and other specific surgical procedures.
In early stages 11% were excluded because of unavoidable reasons and 29% because of avoidable reasons.
In contrast, in advanced stages 21% were excluded because of unavoidable reasons and only 6% because of avoidable reasons.
A certain degree of bias, excluded by the design of RCTs, is thus unavoidable in this context.
It is important to bear in mind this unavoidable asymmetry of treatment of some of the excluded groups across (and even within) countries.
Perhaps the only thing worse than being ensnared by the unavoidable tentacles of the financial system, Kinley continued, is being excluded from it.
When excluding money spent on "unavoidable statutory obligations"—such as waste removal local government spending will fall by around 65% by 2020.
It includes benefits received from government programs intended to reduce poverty, such as food stamps, energy assistance, the Earned Income Tax Credit and excludes taxes and other unavoidable expenses, such as out-of-pocket medical costs.
