One of my colleagues was doing a followup study of patients who had been interviewed when they received treatment a few years so before. The Institutional Review Board (committee responsible for monitoring of treatment of research subjects) told him that he had to report any patient who was found to have died before the followup survey as an adverse event of the (followup) study. > I have heard of being bored to death - but one student informed me in a > finals project that members of a particular panel study were 'interviewed > until they died'. > Do we have data on this .... > > Robert ****************************************************** Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your message will go only to the sender of this message. If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's 'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically to [log in to unmask] *******************************************************