Methods	Allocation: random, no further details. Blindness: double, no further details. Duration: 24 weeks. Design: parallel. Location: multicentre. Country: USA.
Participants	Diagnosis: (DSM-IV) schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, dominant depressive symptoms, MADRS of 16 or more. N=394. Age: 18-60 years. Sex: not reported. History: duration ill not reported, age at onset not reported. Setting: in- and outpatient.
Interventions	Olanzapine: fixed dose: 10, 15 or 20 mg/day. N=202. Ziprasidone: fixed dose: 80, 120 or 160 mg/day. N=192.
Outcomes	Leaving the study early: any reason, adverse events, inefficacy. Global State: CGI. Mental State: PANSS total score, depression MADRS, Calgary depression scale for schizophrenia. General Functioning: GAF. Adverse effects: open interviews, EPS (use of antiparkinson medication, AIMS, BAS, SAS), cardiac effects (ECG), weight gain, laboratory (prolactin, glucose, lipids) Unable to use - PANSS (no data).
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors’ judgement	Support for judgement
Adequate sequence generation?	Unclear risk	Random, no further details.
Allocation concealment?	Unclear risk	No further details.
Blinding? Objective outcomes	Low risk	Objective outcomes such as laboratory measures or death are unlikely to have been much affected by problems of blinding
Blinding? Subjective outcomes	Unclear risk	Double, no further details. Whether blinding was successful has not been examined, but the compounds differ quite substantially in side-effects. This can be a problem for blinding
Incomplete outcome data addressed? All outcomes	High risk	The attrition rate was high (62.7%). The last-observation-carried-forward method was used to account for people leaving the study early. It assumes that a participant who discontinued the study would not have had a change of his condition if he had remained in the study. This assumption can obviously be wrong
Free of selective reporting?	High risk	Secondary outcomes were not fully reported.
Free of other bias?	High risk	The study was sponsored by the manufacturer of olanzapine.