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. 2012 Oct 17;2012(10):CD001321. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001321.pub5

Schlager 1999.

Methods
  • Study design: cross‐over RCT

  • Power calculation: no

  • Intention‐to‐treat analysis: yes

Participants Inclusion criteria
  • Setting: single centre

  • Country: USA

  • Neuropathic bladder and managed by clean intermittent catheterisation; lived at home, had normal findings on renal ultrasonography and voided cystourethrogram, and lived within a 1 hour drive of the hospital.

  • Number: 15 randomised and analysed

  • Age range: 2‐18 years


Exclusion criteria: NS
Interventions Treatment group
  • Cranberry juice cocktail: 300 mL/d (30% cranberry concentrate)


Control group
  • Placebo beverage: looked and tasted similar but contained no cranberry juice


Duration of treatment: 3 months cranberry juice; 3 months placebo
Outcomes
  • Presence of bacteriuria

  • Symptomatic UTI

Notes
  • Method of obtaining urine sample

    • CSU

  • Definition of symptomatic bacteriuria

    • Defined as bacteriuria with fever, abdominal pain, change in continence pattern, or change in colour or odour of urine

  • Definition of bacteriuria

    • ≥ 100,000/mL

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