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. 2018 Oct 26;2018(10):CD007554. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007554.pub3

Bredie 2001.

Methods
  • Study design: cross‐over RCT

  • Study duration: not reported

  • Follow‐up period: 6 weeks during each arm (overall 3 months)

Participants
  • Country: Netherlands

  • Setting: single centre, university hospital

  • Prevalent adult patients on CAPD; established on CAPD for at least 3 months, using 3 to 4 standard exchanges/24 h; free of peritonitis and mechanical drainage complications for at least 3 months prior to their inclusion

  • Number: 21

  • Mean age ± SD: 50.3 ± 11.8 years

  • Sex (M/F):15/6

  • Exclusion criteria: not reported

Interventions Treatment group
  • 7.5% icodextrin in place of glucose‐containing fluid for the overnight dwell


Control group
  • Standard glucose‐containing PD fluid (1.36%, 2.27%, 3.86%) for the overnight dwell


Patients performed CAPD with both control and treatment fluids for a period of 6 weeks each
Outcomes
  • Peritonitis

Notes
  • Funding received from Rijnstate Hospital Arnhem and Baxter Healthcare Company, Benelux

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 Low risk Drop‐out rate: 1/22 (5%)
Selective reporting (reporting bias) High risk Limited clinical outcomes reported
Other bias Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement