Table 2.
Clinical Outcomes for EPO treatment vs no EPO treatment in AKI patients
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Patients without EPO n = 67 |
Patients treated with EPO n = 67 |
Risk Ratio | 95%Confidence Interval | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary outcome, n(%) | |||||
| Transfusions | 22 (32.8) | 23 (34.3) | 1.05 | 0.65, 1.68 | 0.855 |
| Secondary outcomes, n(%) | |||||
| Renal recovery to baseline, full or partial | 54 (80.6) | 52 (77.6) | 0.96 | 0.81, 1.15 | 0.671 |
| Dialysis | 0 (0) | 5 (7.5) | 11.00 | 0.62, 195.08 | 0.102 |
| Death | 7 (10.4) | 10 (14.9) | 1.43 | 0.58, 3.53 | 0.440 |
Post-hoc power determination for detecting the initial effect size of 0.4 yielded 1- β = 52%