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Table 5 Numbers of animals enrolled per trial for individual species and funding categories

From: Sample size and number of outcome measures of veterinary randomised controlled trials of pharmaceutical interventions funded by different sources, a cross-sectional study

  

Median

Interquartile range

Range

Species

Cats (N = 9)

32.0

21.5–93.0

16.0–121.0

Dogs (N = 44)

27.5

16.0–43.0

5.0–316.0

Horses (N = 11)

26.0

15.0 – 61.0

6.0–373.0

Cattle (N = 36)

233.0

35.0–943.0

8.0–5996.0

Sheep (N = 26)

20.0

19.0–24.8

10.0–655.0

Funding category

Trials with pharmaceutical funding/involvement (N = 86)

30.0

19.8–125.8

7.0–5996.0

Trials with non-pharmaceutical funding stated (N = 19)

24.0

14.0–69.0

8.0–369.0

Trials with no funding source stated (N = 21)

42.0

16.0–75.0

5.0–1031.0

All funding categories and species combined

All trials (N = 126)

30.0

17.5–98.8

5.0–5996.0