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Lost to Follow-Up

"Lost to Follow-Up" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Study subjects in COHORT STUDIES whose outcomes are unknown e.g., because they could not or did not wish to attend follow-up visits.(from Dictionary of Epidemiology, 5th ed.)


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lost to Follow-Up" by people in this website by year, and whether "Lost to Follow-Up" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 10 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2013
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