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This was mainly due to missing assessment of lymph node (N-completeness = 29.1%) or distant metastases (M-completeness = 35.2%).
Another limitation of this study is the missing assessment of preoperative cognitive function, since even milder degrees of cognitive impairment have been described as a predisposing risk factor for postoperative delirium [ 4, 7, 10].
A series of logistic regression indicators, like, for instance, prediction deterioration when a particular predictor is missing, assessment of the significance of the weight coefficients (B) of each predictor, or the extent to which the odds ratio (OR) changes when a predictor is removed, may be used to identify these predictors.
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Values for missing assessments of WHO functional class, SF-36, and HAQ/VAS were derived by carrying forward the last observed post-baseline assessment.
Instead, we assumed that any missing assessments of the clinical anchors and HRQOL health-utility measures were missing completely at random (MCAR), meaning that our results would be similar whether or not there were missing data.
It can deal effectively with the situation of missing assessments on specific attributes (the attributes are called missing attributes), which may be caused by lack or limitation of knowledge, experience, and available data about the problem domain.
This indicated that, after adjusting for covariates, previous QoL remained important in modelling the probability of missing assessment.
For patients who died, underwent lung transplantation, or discontinued study medication due to worsening of PAH prior to the considered timepoint (week 16 or week 48), the most conservative approach was used in case of missing assessment.
The logistic regression approach showed on the whole, at each of 12, 24 and 36 months, after adjusting for the required covariates, both the previous and current QoL scores were significant predictors of missing assessment (response by reminder).
The sensitivity of different analyses depends on the proportion of missing assessments and the strength of the underlying causes for missing data [ 18].
For 16 RCTs with incomplete compliance reporting, it was not possible to determine their exact compliance rates, because it was unclear how many observations were included in the analysis or how many of the missing assessments were due to participant death or withdrawal (unavoidable/informative) as opposed to avoidable reasons.
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