Outcomes assessment in the SPRINT multicenter tibial fracture trial: Adjudication committee size has trivial effect on trial results

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate how the size of an outcome adjudication committee, and the potential for dominance among its members, potentially impacts a trial's results. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We conducted a retrospective analysis of data from the six-member adjudication committee in the Study to Prospectively Evaluate Reamed Intramedullary Nails in Patients with Tibial Fractures (SPRINT) Trial. We modeled the adjudication process, predicted the …