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. 2018 Sep 10;2018(9):CD007287. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007287.pub4

Heiss 2010.

Methods Randomised controlled open‐label phase II/III trial
Participants 258 patients with malignant ascites due to epithelial cancer (ovarian cancer n = 129)
Interventions Intraperitoneal trifunctional antibody (EpCAM) + paracentesis vs paracentesis
Outcomes Survival (puncture‐free survival/overall survival)
Immune responses (HAMA)
Adverse events
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Information about the sequence generation process insufficient to permit judgement of ‘low risk’ or ‘high risk’
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Information insufficient to permit judgement of ‘low risk’ or ‘high risk’
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk No blinding or incomplete blinding, but the review authors judge that the outcome is not likely to be influenced by lack of blinding
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Information insufficient to permit judgement of ‘low risk’ or ‘high risk’
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Reason for missing outcome data likely to be related to true outcome, with imbalance in numbers or reasons for missing data across intervention groups
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Information insufficient to permit judgement of ‘low risk’ or ‘high risk’
Other bias Low risk No other sources of bias detected