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Assignment of scores for primary outcome
| Mortality |
Days off ventilator | Score |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scenario | Control | EPVent | Control versus EPVent | Control | EPVent |
| 1 | No | No | > | +1 | −1 |
| 2 | No | No | < | −1 | +1 |
| 3 | No | No | = | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Yes | Yes | [>, <, =][>, <, =][>, <, =] | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | No | Yes | +1 | −1 | |
| 6 | Yes | No | −1 | +1 | |
EPVent, Esophageal Pressure-Guided Ventilation.
