Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2023
Conditional power: how likely is trial success?
23 January 2023 - Because of the costs and potential risks to participants, clinical trials should be initiated or continued only when there is a reasonable chance the results will improve clinical care or represent important new knowledge.
In 2021, McNamee et al. reported the results of a randomised clinical trial evaluating the therapeutic benefit of lower tidal volume ventilation coupled with extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal compared with standard ventilatory support in patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure.
