Sentence examples for expectancy were excluded from inspiring English sources

For instance, the mortality rate in this study may be lower than in other studies, because patients with poor life expectancy were excluded in the trial protocol [34, 35].

However, because we were interested in identifying those patients who would live sufficiently long to benefit from treatment given over several months, those clinics (such as those for lung cancer) in which many of the patients had a very short life expectancy were excluded.

Patients with the history of recurrent stroke attacks and persistent deficits; with underlying psychotic and mental disorders; those who were handicapped before the stroke event; and the patients with comorbidities (e.g., heart failure, peritoneal or hemodialysis) that significantly affect the quality of life and limit life expectancy were excluded.

Individuals with limited life expectancy are excluded from Stage 2 of the study as the process of completing a questionnaire may be cognitively and emotionally taxing for them.

Individuals with limited life expectancy are excluded from Stage 1 of the study as the interview process may be cognitively and emotionally taxing for them.

Residents with a life expectancy of <6 months <span class="lh">were excluded.

Patients with a World Health Organization (WHO) performance status >2, intracerebral disease, other serious conditions and a life expectancy of <3 months <span class="lh">were excluded.

However, as patients with a relatively short life expectancy and serious comorbidity were excluded in all three studies, it is possible that participants had a relatively good prognosis when compared with patients who were not admitted to the study.

Patients with a diagnosis of an illness with a life expectancy less than 24 months were excluded.

In addition, ten residents passed away during the study even though residents with life expectancy less than 6 months were excluded at the beginning.

Given that the survey design focused only on schizophrenic patients with DPTNs in a public psychiatric hospital, patients with very limited life expectancy and those not hospitalized were excluded.