Despite a considerable number of recent developments, missing data and associated methodology continues to be an important topic of research in biostatistics, medicine and public health. As investigators begin to understand the limitations of model-based inferences under the assumption of non-ignorable missingness, recent attention has turned to the formulation and implementation of sensitivity analyses. Having a general-purpose index to assess sensitivity to departures from ignorability would be extremely useful to researchers in a variety of fields in the health sciences. This is especially true if the index is relatively easy to compute and interpret.