Survey reports should present the proportion of non-responders (both those who were unavailable and those who refused), and reasons for unavailability.
This phased recruitment strategy was necessary to include players with reasons for unavailability during the preseason and the intent was to expose as many players as possible to the intervention.
The reasons for unavailability of both a pre- and post-therapy muscle biopsy (n=39) were patients declining from a second biopsy (n=15), logistic problems (n=6), death of patients (n=7), progression of disease where taking a second biopsy was found unethical (n=5), pretherapy biopsy (n=3) or post-therapy biopsy unsuitable for analysis (n=3).
In fact, the reason for its unavailability was not specified.
unanimously condemned "non-medical political pressure" as the reason for the unavailability of RU 486 in the United States.
Perhaps this was the underlying reason for others' unavailability for support and validation, and for their suggestions of dismissive strategies to the bereaved mothers.
Nineteen patients were excluded for reasons of unavailability of adequate tissue samples.
23, 24 There are 2 reasons for the unavailability of the attendance rate.
Suggested reasons for the unavailability of morphine included a fear of addiction, cost and under-prescription: "We, we feel...fear...fear
Four journals required that authors provide reasons for the unavailability of consent or inappropriateness of obtaining it.
Two other journals instructed authors to specify reasons for the unavailability of consent and methods to ensure anonymity (Table 2).
