Statistical analysis
infection
INFECTION
Our sample size calculation was based on the question about aspirin’s efficacy of inhibiting platelet activity in aspirin-naïve patients with a severe infection. There are no data available in the current literature on the suggested size of aspirin’s effect. We, therefore, applied data from a pilot study conducted in 12 healthy aspirin-naive subjects [All statistical analyses were performed using STATA® version 15.1. Baseline characteristics are expressed as mean with standard deviation for normally distributed continuous data and as median with interquartile range for non-normally distributed continuous data (Table Baseline characteristics of the study populationData are presented as median (IQR), mean (SD) or Flow diagram of the trial profile