Most common reasons for nonparticipation of eligible mothers were recorded during the first month of the campaign: a) failure to ask for participation, b) communication problems, and c) complications during labor.
The most common reason (given by 43.7% of eligible respondents) for missing a dose was forgetfulness; other reasons (cited by >10% of eligible respondents) included the device not working, running out of cartridges/needles and being away from home (Table 4).
The most common explanation is that the most eligible bachelor in England at the time, Prince Albert, adorned a 'dressing ring' for the purpose of being able to tie his penis back to hide his trouser bulge and to keep his foreskin pulled back so that it was always sweet smelling for his cousin and later wife, Queen Victoria.
The most common reason for failure to recruit eligible patients was that the patient was discharged before consent/assent could be obtained (n = 120, 67%), followed by the patient declining (n = 33, 18%).
Breast, colorectal, other gastrointestinal tumors and lung cancer were the most common tumor types (33%, 23 %, 13 and 12%and12%l eligible cases, respectively).
The most common reasons for exclusion were the lack of an eligible intervention, and the lack of an eligible study design.
In terms of numbers of risky behaviours screened eligible for, two was the most common (43.6%%), with diet and exercise (27.2 %) being the most common combination.
Among all eligible births for the study, the most common haplotypes were HHA, HHD, HHE, and HHF2, with allelic frequencies of 0.44, 0.34, 0.29 and 0.34, respectively.
Hepatic metastases, the most common malignant tumours of the liver, are only rarely eligible for surgical resection to achieve long-term tumour-free survival or cure.
In non-eligible patients, cardiovascular failure was the most common cause for presentation (n = 290/643, 45.1%).
