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. 2020 Jan 31;2020(1):CD010255. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010255.pub3

Vauth 2016.

Methods RCT
Participants Recruited from Bayreuth, Germany
Inclusion criteria: > 12 months post‐stroke, aphasia, lesion on language dominant hemisphere
Exclusion criteria: cognitive deficit, perceptual disorders, other motor deficits
Age: mean 56 years, range 18 to 76
Gender: not reported
Time post‐stroke: more than 12 months as per inclusion criteria but detail not reported
Interventions Telerehabilitation: therapy was delivered via a screen and the person and therapist were in separate rooms. 1 screen displayed the therapy material and the other displayed the people communicating.
Control group: same form of therapy but delivered in‐person
Dose: 3 times per week (60 minutes each) for 8 weeks. Assessment pre and post‐intervention lasting 5 to 8 hours
Outcomes Timing of outcome assessment: baseline, 8 weeks
Measures: series of aphasia‐related measures and conversation analysis
Notes Article published in German and translated. Contacted the study author for more details but they did not respond
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Details not reported
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Details not reported
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Details not reported
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Details not reported
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Details not reported
Other bias Unclear risk Unclear