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Table 2 Primary and Secondary Outcomes According to the Allocation Group

From: Intraoperative low tidal volume ventilation and the risk of ICD-10 coded delirium and the use for antipsychotic medications

 

Low Tidal Volume

(n = 614)

Conventional Tidal Volume

(n = 592)

Absolute Difference

(95% CI)

p value

Primary outcome

  Delirium during hospital stay

68 (11.1)

67 (11.3)

-0.24 (-3.82 to 3.32)

0.894

Key secondary outcome

  Delirium during hospital staya

68 (11.1)

67 (11.3)

-0.24 (-3.82 to 3.32)

0.894

Secondary outcomes

  Number of doses of anxiolytic

3.5 (2.0 – 7.5)

3.0 (1.0 – 10.0)

0.66 (-1.58 to 2.90)

0.562

  Number of doses of antipsychotic

3.0 (2.0 – 6.0)

4.0 (1.5 – 10.5)

-1.00 (-4.95 to 2.95)

0.622

  Total dose of antipsychotic

9.4 (3.0 – 20.9)

4.0 (2.5 – 30.0)

5.98 (-7.15 to 19.12)

0.376

  1. Data are presented as median (quartile 25—quartile 75) or N (%)
  2. Absolute difference is risk difference for primary and key secondary outcomes and median difference for secondary outcomes
  3. a Excluding diazepam from the definition