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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Mar 17;(3):CD006654. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD006654.pub2
Methods Allocation: random, no further details.
Blindness: double, no further details.
Duration: 16 weeks (first 8 weeks observed).
Design: cross-over.
Location: not reported.
Country: not reported.
Participants Diagnosis: schizophrenia.
N=8.
Age: not reported.
Sex: not reported.
History: duration ill not reported, age at onset not reported.
Setting: in- and outpatient.
Interventions
  1. Olanzapine: fixed/flexible dose: not reported. Allowed dose range: not reported. Mean dose: not reported. N=not reported

  2. Risperidone: fixed/flexible dose: not reported. Allowed dose range: not reported. Mean dose: not reported. N=not reported

Outcomes Global State: CGI.
Mental State: PANSS total score, PANSS positive subscore, PANSS negative subscore depression Calgary depression scale
Unable to use -
Global state: CGI (no usable data).
Mental State: (no usable 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 Data on leaving the study early were not available.
Free of selective reporting? High risk Data were only presented as a poster, data on primary outcomes were missing
Free of other bias? High risk The study was sponsored by the manufacturers of olanzapine.