Fred Pickel, the city's independent ratepayer advocate, criticized the state audit as "incomplete" but declined to say where the report fell short.
Incomplete responses – declining to participate in the survey, e.g. due to limited time – were received to 8% (5 questionnaires) of all questionnaires sent; 2% (1 questionnaire) consisted only of remarks concerning the methodology of the survey.
Of the 349 persons with a stroke diagnosis in the original study, 54 (approximately 15%) were deceased one year post stroke, 45 persons had incomplete data, 76 declined or were lost to follow up and 93 had no identified caregiver.
Schizophrenia is a severe psychotic disorder characterized by a chronic and relapsing course with generally incomplete remissions, substantial functional decline, frequent psychiatric and medical co-morbidities and increased mortality [ 1].
Persons reporting a need of human assistance with ADL (84) and those returning an incomplete Pra-questionnaire or declining participation (3,576) were excluded from the study.
Non-adherence to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy is one of the most important predictors of incomplete HIV RNA suppression, immunologic decline, progression to AIDS and death [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6].
Twenty patients were excluded owing to declined randomisation or incomplete investigations.
Limitations of our study include the fact that a minority of OCS sites agreed to take part in the study and that there was incomplete data regarding reasons for declining to participate or not inviting a patient to participate.
Again, rates in leaves at higher positions (20 25) declined because of incomplete development and yet again, later in the season, this same cohort of leaves now had the highest rates (Fig. 3).
In a fourth step, persons reporting a need for human assistance in performing basic activities of daily living in the questionnaire, those returning an incomplete Pra questionnaire, and those declining participation (by not returning the brief questionnaire or by returning the questionnaire with an explicit statement of refusal) were excluded from the study.
