Table 3.

All discontinuations and differential dropouts by study and treatment arm

Treatment	Randomized (N)	Discontinuations (N)	Discontinuations/randomized (%)
BUD/FORa	494	134	27.1
BUD/FORb	407	117	28.7
BUD/FORc,d	277	39	14.1
FORa	495	157	31.7
FORb	404	133	32.9
FORc,d	284	61	21.5

Notes: Data from

^aRennard et al;¹⁰

^bSharafkhaneh et al;¹¹

^cTashkin et al;¹²

^d6-month study.

Abbreviations: BUD, budesonide; FOR, formoterol.