Schlager 1999.
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Participants | Inclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: NS |
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Interventions | Treatment group
Control group
Duration of treatment: 3 months cranberry juice; 3 months placebo |
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Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | No details provided, states only "randomly assigned" |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Low risk | Adequate, randomly assigned by research pharmacist |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | Low risk | Stated as double blinded |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Low risk | Culture results not available to investigators during the study |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Low risk | All children and results accounted for |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | Symptomatic UTI reported as appropriate |
Other bias | Low risk | Nothing apparent Source of funding: Grants from Spinal Cord Research Foundation and the Pendleton Pediatric Infectious Disease Research Laboratory |