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

Chan 2003.

Methods  
Participants  
Interventions  
Outcomes  
Notes See Table 8
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk "The subjects were randomly assigned to either a music or no‐music group by the research nurse using a computer‐generated random number series [...]"
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk "computer‐generated random number series contained within closed opaque envelopes."
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 Objective outcomes not addressed by this study.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk "all subjects completed the STAI form again and assessed their degree of pain"
"220 women were entered into the trial and all of them completed the study"
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Unknown if selective outcome reporting.
Protection from contamination? Low risk Interventions administered on an individual basis.