Abstract
Several factors significantly impact ability to produce a sputum sample after an anti-inflammatory intervention and we argue that the widely used complete-case analysis is inappropriate for paired sputum-based outcome measures.
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Conflict of interest: Laurits Frøssing has nothing to disclose.
Conflict of interest: Morten Hvidtfeldt has nothing to disclose.
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- Received October 29, 2021.
- Accepted December 21, 2021.
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