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Table 4 Stopping boundaries

From: The adaptive designs CONSORT extension (ACE) statement: a checklist with explanation and elaboration guideline for reporting randomised trials that use an adaptive design

Interim analysis

Number of primary outcome events (information fraction)

Stopping boundaries

Superiority

Futility

Hazard ratio

P-value

Hazard ratio

P-value

1

800 (50%)

< 0.768

< 0.0002

> 0.979

> 0.758

2

1200 (75%)

< 0.806

< 0.0002

> 0.931

> 0.216

Final

1600 (100%)

< 0.906

< 0.0500

  
  1. Adapted from Pocock et al. [195]; primary outcome events are cardiovascular deaths, myocardial infarction, or ischaemic stroke