a statistical trendp < 0.1
Despite this, there was a statistical trend ( p < 0.1) towards a lower mortality rate in the trauma surgery patient group compared to patients treated in the anesthesiology intensive care before matched-pair analysis.
Despite this, there was a statistical trend ( p < 0.1) towards a lower mortality rate in the trauma surgery patient group compared to patients treated in the anesthesiology intensive care before matched-pair analysis.
This explains why the observed numerical difference (11.5%) did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.223), and suggests that smaller but potentially clinically important differences might have been missed due to sample size limitations.