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Case 3: Why Were 116 Patients Excluded?

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In Case 2, you learned to always consider the multiple causes that can change a clinical outcome. In the end in Case 2, there were no results to write about. So what would you do when faced with this dilemma? Give up or start again?

We redesigned the study and took into account all the points mentioned in solution made in Case 2. After many months, we reviewed the findings. Two hundred and twelve patients had been enrolled successfully. But we had to exclude a total of 116 patients.

Why were these 116 cases excluded?

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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2015). Case 3: Why Were 116 Patients Excluded?. In: Clinical Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2516-2_3

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