Completeness of Follow-Up Determines Validity of Study Findings: Results of a Prospective Repeated Measures Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Current reporting guidelines do not call for standardised declaration of follow-up completeness, although study validity depends on the representativeness of measured outcomes. The Follow-Up Index (FUI) describes follow-up completeness at a given study end date as ratio between the inves...

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Autores principales: von Allmen, Regula S., Weiss, Salome, Tevaearai, Hendrik T., Kuemmerli, Christoph, Tinner, Christian, Carrel, Thierry P., Schmidli, Juerg, Dick, Florian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26469346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140817

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4607456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26469346
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140817

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