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. 2019 Oct 22;2019(10):CD005015. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005015.pub4

Marcen 2010.

Methods
  • Study design: open‐label, parallel RCT

  • Study duration: not reported

  • Duration of follow‐up: 6 to 12 months

Participants
  • Country: Spain

  • Setting: not reported

  • Inclusion criteria: kidney transplant recipients with vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency

  • Number: treatment group (36); control group (34)

  • Mean age ± SD (years): not reported

  • Sex (M/F): 38/32

  • Exclusion criteria: not reported

Interventions Treatment group
  • Cholecalciferol: 400 IU/d

  • Calcium supplements: 600mg/d


Control group
  • No treatment


Co‐interventions
  • Not reported

Outcomes
  • iPTH

  • Vitamin D

Notes
  • Abstract‐only publication with outcomes of interest not reported

  • 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 High risk Open‐label study
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) High risk Data unable to be meta‐analysed
Other bias Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement