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. 2012 Jan 8;13:5. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-5

Table 5.

Data concerning the trial period of countries participating in the FAITH trial

NL
(N = 14)
CA
(N = 11)
US
(N = 29)
P-value
Time between ethics approval and start trial (days) 41 (10 - 139) 232 (98 - 423) 87 (45 - 255) 0.027a
Enrolment period (days) 423 (381 - 509) 482 (267 - 663) 283 (142 - 360) 0.001b
Inclusions 13 (7 - 27) 3 (0 - 5) 3 (1 - 6) < 0.001c
Registered patients 23 (12 - 36) 54 (3 - 75) 16 (5 - 27) 0.060
Patients missed for registration1 35 (10 - 81) Unknown Unknown
Inclusions (n per month) 1.03 (0.43 - 2.21) 0.14 (0.00 - 0.28) 0.31 (0.09 - 0.62) < 0.001d
Total patients (n per month) 2.49 (1.60 - 3.64) 2.76 (0.60 - 8.75) 1.96 (1.11 - 3.75) 0.574
Proportion inclusions (% of total) 34.4 (23.8 - 62.6) 3.93 (0.00 - 13.2) 16.7 (2.50 - 31.3) 0.001e
Proportion patients that were missed for registration of total1 (%) 57.4 (32.2 - 65.2) Unknown Unknown
Completed follow-ups (%) 82.6 (80.0 - 84.6) 83.5 (72.7 - 95.2) 70.0 (60.0 - 88.1) 0.217
Follow-ups in window (%) 77.1 (71.0 - 82.2) 85.9 (81.0 - 95.0) 85.7 (70.0 - 100.0) 0.073

NL, the Netherlands; CA, Canada; US, United States.

Numbers in the headers represent the number of sites per country that data were available for.

Data are presented as median with P25-P75 given between brackets.

Statistics were calculated using the Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA.

1 Data available for NL only.

Post-hoc pair wise comparisons were performed using a Mann-Whitney U-test: a Statistical significance was reached when comparing NL vs. CA (p = 0.010), other groups: not significant. b Statistical significance was reached when comparing NL vs. US (p < 0.001), other groups: not significant. c Statistical significance was reached when comparing NL vs. CA (p = 0.002) and NL vs. US (p < 0.001), CA vs. US: not significant. d Statistical significance was reached when comparing NL vs. CA (p = 0.001) and NL vs. US (p = 0.001), CA vs. US: not significant. e Statistical significance was reached when comparing NL vs. CA (p < 0.001) and NL vs. US (p = 0.009), CA vs. US: not significant.