Awakening Council leaders in Diyala Province say Al Qaeda in Iraq, a Sunni insurgent group, issued a directive recently saying that the murder of a single Awakening Council member was equal in value to the death of 20 American soldiers.
In stable COPD, population models of 6 month survival do exist but they are of limited value to predict death for individual patients [ 21].
The monetary values used to assign a value to premature death and to a case of fatal cancer are selected according to European Commission (EC) recommendations and are adjusted for the risk context and for different time frames of the predicted health benefits in the sensitivity analysis [ 25].
The length of time in full health (x) plus the length of time in selected health state summed to ten years (t), with the length of time in the two component parts varied until it was considered of equal value to immediate death.
For the analysis of mean change from baseline in FVC, missing values due to death were assigned the worst possible value (i.e. "0").
However, it can easily lead to a practical problem when we have to impute missing values prior to death.
More detailed information on the age, BMI, pancreas weight, diabetes duration, HbA1c values nearest to death and the causes of death are separately described in Supplemental Table 1.
For the rank ANCOVA analyses, missing values due to death were assigned the worst ranks based on the time of death from randomisation.
An exception was made for missing values due to death, which were imputed with the worst case rank at each follow-up.
The EQ-5D-5L index scores generated using this algorithm range from −0.224 to 1, with 0, 1, and negative values corresponding to death, full health, and health states worse than death, respectively.
