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

Peeters 2001.

Methods
  • Study design: parallel RCT

  • Study duration: not reported

  • Duration of follow‐up: 2 years

Participants
  • Country: Belgium

  • Setting: not reported

  • Inclusion criteria: patients with 1st kidney transplant (cadaveric)

  • Number: treatment group (35); control group (34)

  • Mean age (years): treatment group (49.3); control group (50.5)

  • Sex (M/F): treatment group (19/16); control group (17/17)

  • Exclusion criteria:

Interventions Treatment group
  • Alfacalcidol: 1µg/d


Control group
  • Placebo


Co‐interventions
  • Calcium: 1000 mg

Outcomes
  • Death and graft survival

  • Acute rejection episodes

  • BMD

  • Hypercalcaemia

Notes
  • Abstract‐only publication with no extractable data; no full‐text publication identified after 10 years

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