Barely Significant
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Are large clinical trials in orthopaedic trauma justified?

BMC Musculoskelet Disord · 2018 · PMC5909275 · PMID 29678204

Europe PMCDOI
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hedged sentence
0.0600
closest p · 1.2× alpha
0.0600
boldest claim

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approached significancep = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)
When 750 patients were enrolled into the trial, the difference approached significance with p = 0.06 (RR = 1.55, 95% CI: 0.99–2.41).

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