Modeling Clinical Trial Patient Attrition Using Machine Learning: A case study using 1,325 Respiratory Trials.
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This file is the readme.txt file for the data folder


TABLE OF CONTENTS
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* Full Author List 

* Introduction

* Folder Contents

* Contact


Full Author List
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Emmette Hutchison, Youyi Zhang, Sreenath Nampally, Imran Khan Neelufer, Vlad Malkov, Jim Weatherall, Faisal Khan and Khader Shameer

Introduction
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Patient attrition, also referred to as dropout or patient withdrawal, occurs when patients enrolled 
in a clinical trial either withdraw or are lost to follow-up by the clinical site and trial sponsor.

Folder Contents
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This folder contains the data files that were used in the analysis. The file descriptions are listed below:

|--data
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    |---- readme.txt:  readme file for the data folder            
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    |---- analysis_ready: This folder contains the analysis_ready data that is used for the primary model. This
    |                     folder contains below files:-
			
			|-----Indexed_Analysis_Ready.csv 
 
			|-----Indexed_Analysis_Ready_Data_Dictionary.xlsx


Contact
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shameer.khader@astrazeneca.com