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. 2009 Oct 8;339:b3911. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b3911

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Fig 2 Adjusted difference in consent rates (Z) plotted against statistic summarising information about difference (V), which is proportional to number of sets of relatives. Three crosses correspond to planned analyses at 100 and 150 patients and final analysis at 201 patients. Figure shows routine trial stopping boundaries and boundaries adjusted for discrete monitoring (Christmas tree correction)