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. 2017 Dec 22;2017(12):CD011535. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011535.pub2
Methods RCT, placebo‐controlled, double blind
Date of study: not stated
Setting: multicenter (locations not stated)
Participants Randomised: 195 participants (no description of the study population)
Inclusion criteria
  • Participants with moderate‐severe psoriasis (BSA ≥ 10)

  • Age ≥ 16 years

  • Non‐response to phototherapy

  • Non‐response to conventional systemic treatment

  • Number of allowed previous treatments: 3


Exclusion criteria
  • Previous treatments > 3


Dropouts and withdrawals
  • Not stated

Interventions Intervention
A. Alefacept (n = 130), IM, 15 mg, once a week, 12 weeks
Control Intervention
B. Placebo (n = 65), IM, once a week, 12 weeks
Outcomes Assessments at 14 weeks
Primary or secondary outcomes of the trial
  • PASI50


Outcomes of the trial
  • AEs

Notes Funding: not stated
Abstracts:
“Alefacept in the treatment of psoriasis for whom conventional therapies are ineffective or inappropriate” published in 2004 in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Poster P105
We asked the study authors to provide the protocol and results by email. The had no acces to the data ("I do not have access to the data you require")
Finally, as the 'Risk of bias' tool assessment was not possible and there were missing data for the results, Reich 2004 was included in "awaiting classification".