But it added that the United States was still ahead of Europe when it came to its rate of writing off bad loans.
The rate of written informed consent to participate was high (98%).
To our knowledge, the study by Pearlman et al. [ 10] is the only one that simultaneously tested the effects of patient-proxy advance planning discussions on prediction accuracy and rate of written ADs.
The utilisation rates of written AS information and online information were quite low (50%and49%9%, respectively) and accessed infrequently (on average every 6 months or less), with older participants most frequently accessing written sources and the younger accessing predominantly online information.
Of note, there was a particularly low rate (29%) of written consent for the procedure among dementia patients.
Neil Blake, senior economic adviser to the club, said: "Although 1.9% doesn't sound big, this will be the highest annual rate of write-offs since the mid-90s, and the more loans banks have to write off the less money they will have to lend.
Still, at my current rate of writing, I might catch up with him sometime next century.
Mr. Westlake used different names in part to combat skepticism over his rapid rate of writing books, sometimes as many as four a year, his friends said.
Diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer in 2010, the Chic guitarist responded by turbo-charging his work rate of writing, producing and gigging.
Naturally, defaults by corporate borrowers increased when the economy turned down: the rate of written-off loans more than tripled between 1999 and 2002.
In that case, he said, they would not get the benefit of low capital gains tax rates or of writing off capital losses.
