Methods |
See aa Hoberman 2003a
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Participants |
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Interventions |
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Outcomes |
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Funding Source |
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Notes |
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Risk of bias |
Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Low risk |
Random number, computer‐generated list, block randomisation (block of 9) |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Low risk |
"Randomisation lists were kept in locked files not accessible to blinded personnel" |
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
All outcomes |
Low risk |
Double‐blinded |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Low risk |
Proportion of missing outcomes compared with observed event risk not enough to have a clinically relevant impact on the intervention effect estimate. |
Summary assessments |
Low risk |
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