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. 2013 Apr 29;7:361–368. doi: 10.2147/DDDT.S42624

Table 3.

Clinical effectiveness of treatment group and control group (PP/ITT dataset)

Variables PP dataset ITT dataset


Ganciclovir in situ ophthalmic gel group Ganciclovir ophthalmic gel group P-value Ganciclovir in situ ophthalmic gel group Ganciclovir ophthalmic gel group P-value
Clinical effectiveness χ2 = 0.6331 0.4262 χ2 = 0.49 0.4836
 Total (%) 102 (100.00) 100 (100.00) 108 (100.00) 111 (100.00)
 Significantly effective (%) 47 (46.08) 43 (43.00) 47 (43.52) 45 (40.54)
 Effective (%) 50 (49.02) 50 (50.00) 51 (47.22) 53 (47.75)
 Slightly effective (%) 4 (3.92) 6 (6.00) 5 (4.63) 6 (5.41)
 Ineffective (%) 1 (0.98) 1 (1.00) 5 (4.63) 7 (6.31)
Total clinical effectiveness χ2 = 0.3978 0.5282 χ2 = 0.3503 0.5540
 CER (%) 97 (95.10) 93 (93.00) 98 (90.74) 98 (88.29)
 CIER (%) 5 (4.90) 7 (7.00) 10 (9.26) 13 (11.71)
Confidence interval of 95% CER (%) (90.91, 99.29) (88.00, 98.00) Z = 3.427 0.000305 (85.27, 96.21) (82.31, 94.27) Z = 2.836 0.0022872

Abbreviations: PP, per-protocol; ITT, intent-to-treat; CER, clinical effective rate; CIER, clinical ineffective rate.