Schwartz 2006

Methods	RCT Method of randomisation: block sampling method (each block contained 6 participants: 4 experimental group and 2 control group) Blinding of outcome assessors: no Adverse events: 5 (3 in experimental group, 2 in control group) Deaths: none Drop‐outs: 11 (8 in experimental group, 3 in control group) ITT: no (stated, but 2 participants from the control group were excluded from analysis)
Participants	Country: Israel 67 participants (at October 2006) (37 in treatment group, 30 in control group) Non‐ambulatory at study onset Mean age: 60 years Inclusion criteria: first stroke, until 3 months after stroke Exclusion criteria: not provided by the authors
Interventions	2 arms: Physiotherapy with additional gait training using the Lokomat 3 times a week for 6 weeks Physiotherapy with additional gait training 3 times a week for 6 weeks
Outcomes	Outcomes were recorded at baseline and after 3, 6 and 9 weeks FAC National Institutes of Health Stroke Survey Stroke Activity Scale Functional Independence Measure Gait velocity 2‐Minute walk test Timed Up and Go Test Number of stairs climbing test
Notes	Published and unpublished data provided by the authors
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Block sampling
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Unclear
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	High risk	Not done
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	High risk	For dichotomous outcome data, the proportion of missing outcomes compared with observed event risk enough to induce clinically relevant bias into intervention effect estimate