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. 2016 Oct 12;2016(10):CD008536. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008536.pub3

Meeuwsen 2002.

Methods Randomised placebo‐controlled trial
Participants 85 healthy postmenopausal women, who were ≥ 1 year and at maximum 15 years after natural menopause. Mean age 54.2 years
Interventions
  • Tibolone 2.5mg/d

  • Placebo


Administered for 1 year
Outcomes Vasomotor symptoms, unscheduled bleeding and sleep
Notes Timing: not reported
Location: Netherlands
Multi‐centre: no; single site
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Not explained how the randomisation list was generated
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not specified
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Tablets of identical appearance
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Not specified, but given the nature of the outcome assessed, its evaluation is likely to be "objective"
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Reasons given for withdrawals (4 women)
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Study protocol not available
Conflict of interest High risk Drug manufacturer was involved in the trial (random sequence generation was performed by the drug manufacturer)