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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Respir Med. 2013 Aug 21;1(7):515–523. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(13)70166-8

Table 3.

Outcomes

Haloperidol
(n=71)
Placebo
(n=70)
Difference (95% CI)* or RR
(95% CI)
P value
Alive, delirium free, and
coma free days in first 14
days
5 (0-10) 6 (0-11) −0.48 (−2.08, 1.21) 0.53
Days in delirium in first 14
days+
5 (2-8) 5 (1-8) 0.01 (−1.31 to 1.33) 0.99
Days in coma in first 14
days+
0 (0-2) 0.5 (0-2) 0.00 (−0.68 to 0.67) 0.99
Alive, delirium free, and
coma free days in first 28
days
19 (0-24) 19.5 (0-25) −0.26 (−3.72 to 3.46) 0.57
Days in delirium in first 28
days+
5 (2-10) 5 (1-9) −0.38 (−2.37 to 1.62) 0.71
Days in coma in first 28
days+
0 (0-2) 1 (0-2) −0.05 (−0.82 to 0.72) 0.90
Ventilator free days in first
28 days
21 (0-25) 17 (0-25)) 0.25 (−3.26 to 4.16) 0.88
Mortality at 28 days 20 (28.2%) 19 (27.1%) RR 1.04 (0.61 to 1.77) ..
Length of critical care stay
(days)
9.5 (5-14) 9 (5-18) −1.45 (−5.42, 2.52) 0.47
Length of hospital stay
(days) §
18.5 (12-31) 26 (15-40) −5.13 (−21.75 to 11.48) 0.54

Data are number (%), median (IQR), unless otherwise specified. RR=risk ratio.

*

CI bootstrapped.

†Including patients who died within study period.

Excluding patients who died in ICU: n=52 for haloperidol, n=51 for placebo.

§

Excluding patients who died in hospital: n=42 for haloperidol, n=47 for placebo.