Evidence-Based Practice / Unit 22 EBP 3165 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Uneven Dropout Changes the Answer
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The idea
If people with particular characteristics leave one group more than the other, the findings differ from what they would have been had everyone stayed.
In practice
Participants with the poorest outcomes leaving because they felt no benefit.
Where people slip
That example is the dangerous case. Losing the people doing worst makes an intervention look better than it is.
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