Treatment benefit cannot be excluded on the basis of mean difference alone

Treatment benefit cannot be excluded on the basis of mean difference alone. Poster presented at the 23rd Cochrane Colloquium, 3-7 October 2015, Vienna, Austria.

The objective of the presented study was to contrast the results of assessing clinical importance using a pooled mean difference versus individual responses from a Cochrane review comparing tiotropium with placebo in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).