Statistical analysis plan for the POLAR-RCT: The Prophylactic hypOthermia trial to Lessen trAumatic bRain injury-Randomised Controlled Trial

Trials

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Presneill, Jeffrey ^a,e,p   Gantner, Dashiell ^a,b   Nichol, Alistair ^a,b,c,d   McArthur, Colin ^a,k   Forbes, Andrew ^a   Kasza, Jessica ^a   Trapani, Tony ^a,b   Murray, Lynnette ^a   Bernard, Stephen ^b,j   Cameron, Peter ^a,f,h   Capellier, Gilles ^l,m   Huet, Olivier ^a,q,r   Newby, Lynette ^k   Rashford, Stephen ⁿ   Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V ^a,h,o   Smith, Tony ^g,k   Stephenson, Michael ^a,j   Varma, Dinesh ^a,h   Vallance, Shirley ^a,b   Walker, Tony ^j   Webb, Steve ^a,i   James Cooper, D ^a,b   more..

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b The Alfred   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^e ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^g St John New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^h ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

ⁱ ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^j Blackburn North   (Australia)

^k AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^l UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

^m UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

ⁿ Queensland Government Department of Emergency Services   (Australia)

^o Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^q SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

^r UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

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Author keywords

Cooling; Critical care; Hypothermia; Outcome; Randomised controlled trials; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACUTE BRAIN DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTENDED GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; FRANCE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY RATE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QATAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SURVIVAL RATE; SWITZERLAND; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ADOLESCENT; CONVALESCENCE; DEVICES; DISABILITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEW ZEALAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85046128909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-018-2610-y     Document Type: Article

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