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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Apr 14.
Published in final edited form as: Neurocrit Care. 2022 Sep 27;38(2):345–355. doi: 10.1007/s12028-022-01599-9

Table 2.

Primary Outcome

Total Daily
Maintenance Dose
Early PTS Cumulative
Incidence (95% CI)
Early PTS OW-weighted
Cumulative Incidence (95% CI)
Death Cumulative
Incidence (95% CI)
Death OW-weighted
Cumulative Incidence (95% CI)
≤1000 mg/day 0.039 (0.02, 0.075) 0.029 (0.014, 0.062) 0.058 (0.036, 0.093) 0.04 (0.022, 0.075)
1500 mg/day 0.078 (0.044, 0.139) 0.088 (0.049, 0.158) 0.067 (0.035, 0.13) 0.067 (0.031, 0.144)
≥2000 mg/day 0.084 (0.061, 0.118) 0.09 (0.059, 0.137) 0.096 (0.069, 0.133) 0.094 (0.058, 0.153)
Total Daily
Maintenance Dose
Early PTS OW-weighted
Estimated sHRs (95% CI)
P-value Death OW-weighted
Estimated sHRs (95% CI)
P-value
1500 mg/day vs.
≤1000 mg/day
3.09 (0.44, 21.85) 0.26 1.67 (0.26, 10.96) 0.59
≥2000 mg/day vs.
≤1000 mg/day
3.16 (0.45, 22.25) 0.25 2.39 (0.4, 14.16) 0.34
≥2000 mg/day vs.
1500 mg/day
1.02 (0.27, 3.91) 0.98 1.43 (0.32, 6.33) 0.64

Cumulative incidences were estimated using the Fine-Gray subdistribution hazard models. Subdistribution hazard ratios (sHR) were obtained from the OW-weighted Fine-Gray model.

PTS: Post-traumatic seizures. OW: Overlap weights. sHRs: Subdistribution hazard ratios.