Waites 2004.
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Participants | Inclusion criteria
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Interventions | Treatment group
Control group
Duration of treatment: 6 months |
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Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | No details about random sequence methods were reported |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Uncertain of the process of treatment allocation, no details were reported |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | Low risk | Patients and clinicians were blind to treatment allocation |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Probably likely that microbiology staff assessing culture results were blind to treatment, but this wasn't stated |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | High risk | 26 withdrawals out of 74 participants had no data on outcomes |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | The primary outcome was symptomatic UTI which is appropriate |
Other bias | Unclear risk | Few details on how patients were identified, possible selection bias Source of funding: NS, but Cranberry capsules were provided by Aim This Way, Cambridge, Massachusetts. |