What's the difference between accrual and deferral?
Accrual
Definition:
(n.) Accrument.
Example Sentences:
(1) The study was terminated prior to accrual of the planned number of patients because of the statistically significant difference in efficacy between treatments found at interim analysis.
(2) Nonparametric estimates for all possible values of accrual duration and total study length required to achieve a specified power and level of significance are given assuming a proportional hazards model comparing two treatment groups.
(3) The tamoxifen or placebo treatment continued to death or to 10 months after accrual into the trial was stopped.
(4) This argues against a strategy of optional stopping of information accrual during the fixation of SL and is in line with a strategy of either fully neglecting or fully encoding SL.
(5) Side effects occurred despite dose reduction; therefore, protocol accrual was prematurely closed.
(6) Phylogenetically, a succession of structural innovations steadily enhanced the flow capacity of the larynx and rendered the mechanism more versatile, most recently with the accrual of phonation (in mammals), pressurized closure (in primates and odontocetes), and vocal formants and efficiency (in man).
(7) It is critical that interim statistical reports be interpreted correctly so as not to affect accrual adversely.
(8) This paper discusses practical aspects of patient accrual and interim analysis in this study.
(9) Postoperative memory, measured with delayed free recall, and postoperative mental performance, measured with the frequency accrual speed test index, were both significantly less impaired in the propofol group.
(10) Methods of determining appropriate combinations for the accrual and follow-up periods are given and the unique cost effective choice of accrual and follow-up periods is presented.
(11) On the other hand, the efficiency of the proportions test can drop to 72% or less for trials in which the accrual period exceeds the mean survival, as is often the case in trials to treat cancer.
(12) Rees – who turns 60 next month when his pension accruals will come to an end – will step down as deputy chief executive at the end of April.
(13) Rigid protocol design was the primary deterrent to accrual, especially for medical oncologists.
(14) The analysis was motivated by concerns over low accrual rates and a lower than expected response rate.
(15) The model has the advantages of predicting the time course of costs, allowing for different accrual and follow-up costs, and being amenable to revision during the conduct of a trial.
(16) Congruity effects arise because the duration of each evidence accrual is increased and the quality of the information is reduced as the distance of the stimulus representations from the instruction-activated reference point increases.
(17) Present annual accrual is approximately 2000 patients per year; 38 protocols are actively accruing patients while follow-up continues on 14 studies that are closed to patient entry.
(18) The $465 fee is an application fee, but a lot of the documents required in the application also lead to an accrual of additional fees – such as school transcripts, records from officials, photos, mailing.
(19) Current cancer care programmes in Sweden are listed, together with some examples of patient accrual in trials within regional and national programmes.
(20) In contrast, the development of the basolateral surface, which requires much less membrane accrual, was unaffected by PEM.
Deferral
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Deferrals for low hematocrit were significantly higher for both sexes at and above 45 degrees F. Similar experiences were also observed in 79,563 donors who came to the bloodmobiles over 19 months in 1983 and 1984.
(2) The risk of a combined end point, severe visual loss or vitrectomy, was low in eyes assigned to deferral (6% at 5 years) and was reduced by early photocoagulation (4% at 5 years).
(3) Based on questionnaires given to 1247 donors with subsequent follow-up of their donation records for 6 months, permanent psychological effects of deferral are suggested.
(4) The indolent nature and benign appearance of these lesions shold not lead to deferral of complete evaluation and appropriate treatment.
(5) To minimize this risk, the reasons for deferral of donation need to be communicated more effectively to blood donors who are at high risk of HIV infection, and new assays that detect HIV infection earlier should be evaluated for their effectiveness in screening donated blood.
(6) Deferrals from prior years increased by £700m relative to 2009.
(7) Of the £1.6bn increase, some £1bn was caused by BarCap, which has been hiring more people and investing in infrastructure as well incurring costs from new deferral pay deals being demanded by the Financial Services Authority.
(8) Elevated temperature was unable to suppress growth of C. albicans in either a control culture medium or a deferrated culture medium.
(9) This is where the pleasure lies, in the endless deferrals rather than the promised beatings.
(10) A similar request for deferral, by 21-year-old Tolokonnikova, is still pending.
(11) Changes in percentages of donor deferrals associated with changes in the capillary tube size used for microhematocrit determinations led us to study the variables which influence microhematocrit values.
(12) He also contends that the president’s deferral of deportations of young people who were brought to the US as children illegally by their parents – known as Dreamers – has acted as a magnet for illegal migrants.
(13) The US is behaving like a tax haven by operating a deferral system which allows US companies to stash profits offshore,” said Cato.
(14) The National Housing Federation, which represents English housing associations, welcomed the deferral but warned that the sector still faced “substantial uncertainty” because of the threat of the cap being introduced at a later stage.
(15) Capillary RBC ZP measurements in combination with the MH test have the potential to safely decrease inappropriate anemia deferrals.
(16) One eye of each patient was assigned randomly to early photocoagulation and the other to deferral of photocoagulation.
(17) Among most first-time donors, temporary deferral may be interpreted psychologically as providing a permanent excuse for not donating.
(18) "It will not be a plan we can accept," its report said, because of worries about the "deferral dates for some facilities".
(19) Epidemiologic and behavioral data from seropositive donors will help in the development and evaluation of future donor deferral strategies.
(20) Addition of heterologous siderophores from both bacteria and fungi also supported growth of the yeast in a deferrated medium.