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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2009 Aug 12;30(1):68–75. doi: 10.1177/0272989X09340583

Table 5.

Sample Size per Group to detect an increase in the Serious Adverse Event Rate over the Control Rate

Control
Rate
Increase
0.005

0.010

0.015

0.020

0.025

0.030

0.035

0.040

0.045

0.050
0.020 27,618 7,652 3,730 2,282 1,578 1,176 924 752 630 538
0.030 39,486 10,602 5,036 3,012 2,042 1,498 1,158 930 770 652
0.040 51,102 13,490 6,312 3,726 2,498 1,812 1,388 1,106 908 762
0.050 62,468 16,316 7,560 4,426 2,942 2,118 1,612 1,276 1,042 870