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. 2018 Apr 3;2018(4):CD010597. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010597.pub2

Lustig 2011.

Methods
  • Study design: parallel RCT

  • Study duration: not reported

  • Duration of follow‐up: not reported

Participants
  • Setting: not reported

  • Country: Israel

  • Participants with a dialysis catheter

  • Number: 100 participants; 140 catheters; treatment group (not reported); control group (not reported)

  • Mean age ± SD (years): not reported

  • Sex (M/F): not reported

  • Exclusion criteria: not reported

Interventions Treatment group
  • Trisodium citrate

  • Ethanol

  • Methylene blue


Control group
  • Heparin

Outcomes
  • CRI

  • Thrombosis

  • Sepsis

  • Exit site infections

Notes
  • Abstract‐only publication

  • Funding source: not reported

Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Other bias Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement