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A total of 1821 adult patients with severe sepsis were enrolled in the randomized, placebo-controlled trials supporting the approval of drotrecogin alfa (activated); 940 patients received active treatment and 881 patients received placebo.
This placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind, single-center study was performed at the Department of Medical Intensive Care Unit and the Department of Infectious Diseases of Erciyes University Medical School during a 2-year period (from May 1997 to April 1999).
However, given the severity of the symptoms generally associated with a gastric ulcer, there no longer appears to be a clear justification for continuing to conduct placebo-controlled trials in these patients.
The placebo response rate at the 20% improvement criteria was unusually high (32%) for a placebo-controlled trial.
Armed with such evidence—whether it qualifies aspirin as “proven therapy” is open to subjective interpretation—many placebo opponents, we maintain, would argue for an active-controlled design as a more ethical alternative to the placebo-controlled design actually used in APPROVe [11].