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The search strategy used is detailed in Additional File 1. Abstracts were examined for possible inclusion if they were randomized trials conducted in an acute pain setting, used rofecoxib and a placebo or active comparator.
For the majority of patients receiving placebo treatment the ulcer did not heal during the course of the trial and the maximum recorded as healed was just over a third of the patients (39%) in any of the trials.
Assessment of the changes among the all-survivors, based on two-sided, two-sample Wilcoxon tests, suggests advantages for the AT III group as compared with the placebo group in three of the attributes; namely, patient communication and speech, level of alertness, and energy level.
The results of the study indicate that, over a 90-day period, survivors of severe sepsis receiving AT III experienced substantial and statistically significant improvements as compared with placebo in several attributes of QoL.
MIRACL enrolled 3,086 patients within 24-96 hours (mean 63 hours) of admission for unstable angina or a non-Q-wave myocardial infarction and randomized them to 16 weeks of atorvastatin 80 mg or placebo once daily [ 5 ] . The major exclusion criteria were: total cholesterol level greater than 270 mg/dL; Q-wave myocardial infarction on admission or during the previous month; and, coronary revascularization in the months before admission, during the index hospitalization or anticipated following hospital discharge.