| Methods |
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| Participants |
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| Interventions |
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| Outcomes |
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| Notes |
See Table 17
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| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Method of allocation not described (likely to be rule‐based, e.g. room availability). |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
High risk |
Unlikely to have allocation concealment, as likely to have a rule‐based allocation system. |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
Subjective outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Level of blinding not described. |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
Objective outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Level of blinding not described. |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Withdrawals and drop‐outs not described. |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
High risk |
Insufficient data provided for extraction: Infection. |
| Protection from contamination? |
Unclear risk |
Unclear if patients were moved between rooms. |
