Methods |
2001 to 2002 season data from Vesikari 2006 |
Participants |
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Interventions |
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Outcomes |
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Funding Source |
Industry |
Notes |
This second year could be biased due to attrition. |
Risk of bias |
Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Insufficient description |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Insufficient description |
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Insufficient description |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
High risk |
The proportion of missing outcomes compared with observed event risk is enough to induce clinically relevant bias in intervention effect estimate. |
Summary assessments |
High risk |
Some doubts arise from attrition bias. |