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

Oliden 2012.

Methods judgementCountry:
Study design: Prospective randomised uncontrolled parallel‐group randomised trial
Duration of study: not reported
Duration of follow‐up: 24 weeks
Participants
  • Country: Argentina

  • Setting: single centre

  • Inclusion criteria: kidney transplant recipients; eGFR < 60 mL/min; secondary hyperparathyroidism

  • Number: treatment group (6); control group (6)

  • Mean age ± SD (years): treatment group (57.5 ± 8); control group (52.3 ± 6)

  • Sex (M/F): not reported

  • Exclusion criteria: GFR > 60 mL/min; PTH > 110 pg/mL; corrected calcium >10.5 mg/dL; serum phosphorus > 5.5 mg/dL

Interventions Treatment group
  • Paricalcitol (oral): uncertain dose (error in abstract)


Control group
  • Calcitriol (oral): 0.25 mg/d


Co‐interventions
  • Not reported

Outcomes
  • PTH

Notes
  • Abstract‐only publication; full‐text publication not identified

  • Funding source: not reported

  • Trial registration: 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 Low risk All patients included in outcome assessment at 24 weeks
Selective reporting (reporting bias) High risk Patient important outcomes were not all reported in systematic way
Other bias Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement