Go 1992
| Methods | Individual randomised controlled trials | |
| Participants | Dx: dandruff Exclusion criteria: pregnancy, younger than 18 years of age, not using topical steroids in the past 2 weeks |
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| Interventions | Intervention: 1% keto - shampoo applied 2× weekly for 4 weeks (n = 88) Control: vehicle shampoo applied similarly (n = 88) |
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| Outcomes | Complete clearance | |
| Notes | Country: The Netherlands COI: none declared |
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| Risk of bias | ||
| Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | "Patients were randomly allocated to either .." |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Not stated |
| Baseline comparable? | Low risk | "At the start the 2 treatment showed no significant difference in history of dandruff and severity?" |
| Patient blinded? | Unclear risk | ''double blind study..'' |
| Provider blinded? | Unclear risk | "double blind study..'' |
| Outcome assessor blinded? | Unclear risk | "double blind study..'' |
| Co-interventions avoided? | Low risk | "The patient who used a corticosteroid concomitantly was removed from the efficacy analysis" |
| Compliance acceptable? | Low risk | "... one subject stopped treatment after one week because of an adverse effect" |
| Drop-out acceptable? | Unclear risk | "Only one patient in the KTZ group stopped treatment due to greasy ..." |
| Selective outcome reporting acceptable? | Low risk | All outcomes were reported |
| ITT? | Unclear risk | Not stated |