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

Thervet 2008.

Methods
  • Study design: open‐label, parallel RCT

  • Study duration: January 2006 to September 2006

  • Duration of follow‐up: 12 months

Participants
  • Country: France

  • Setting: not reported

  • Inclusion criteria: kidney transplant recipients; vitamin D < 30 ng/mL; calcium < 35 mmol/L

  • Number: treatment group 1 (23); treatment group 2 (26)

  • Mean age ± SD (years): not reported

  • Sex (M/F): not reported

  • Exclusion criteria: not reported

Interventions Treatment group 1
  • Cholecalciferol: 100,000 U every 2 months, initiated at 4 months post transplant


Treatment group 2
  • Cholecalciferol: 100,000 U every 2 months, initiated at 6 months post transplant


Co‐interventions
  • Not reported

Outcomes
  • Vitamin D

  • PTH

  • GFR

  • Adverse events

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