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. 2012 Mar 14;2012(3):CD005315. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005315.pub2

Argstatter 2006.

Methods  
Participants  
Interventions  
Outcomes  
Notes See Table 8
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Method of randomisation not descibed.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not described.
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) 
 Subjective outcomes High risk Patients aware of group allocation.
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) 
 Objective outcomes Unclear risk Unclear whether measurements of physiological outcomes were automated.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Description of withdrawals and drop‐outs: 7 patients were excluded due to incomplete outcome data.
Outcomes reported for > 80% of participants.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Unknown if selective outcome reporting.
Protection from contamination? Low risk Music allocated to individuals via headphones.