title: Describing the subjects in a study.
authors.affiliation: Medical Statistics Group, University of Southampton, UK. rmp@soton.ac.uk
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Pickering
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D006801:Humans; D010166:Palliative Care; D010352:Patient Dropouts / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018579:Patient Selection; D012107:Research Design; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods*