Patient-Important Outcomes Other Than Mortality in Contemporary ICU Trials: A Scoping Review

CONCLUSIONS: In this sample of RCTs, substantial variation in practice and suboptimal methodological choices were observed. This calls for increased focus on standardizing outcome choices and definitions, adequate handling of missing data and deceased patients in analyses, and use of statistical methods quantifying effect sizes.
Source: Critical Care Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Online Review Article Source Type: research