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Table 3 The primary trial outcome of days in hospital after surgery

From: A pragmatic multi-centre randomised controlled trial of fluid loading in high-risk surgical patients undergoing major elective surgery - the FOCCUS study

 

Fluid

loading (n= 55)

Fluid

control

(n= 54)

Effect size

Bootstrap

95% CI

P-value

Days in hospital after surgery

mean (SD)

12.2 (11.5)

17.4 (20.0)

5.50

-0.44, 11.44

0.070

median (IQR)

8.8

(6.9,13.0)

11.0

(7.8, 18.9)

2.2

  
  1. CI, confidence interval; IQR, interquartile range; SD, standard deviation.
  2. The effect size is the difference in means adjusted for minimisation covariates.
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