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. 2013 May 31;2013(5):CD002095. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD002095.pub5

Kahrilas 2005.

Methods Randomised 
 Double‐blinded 
 ITT
Participants n = 261 
 Heartburn 
 No oesophageal erosions
Interventions Four weeks 
 RAB 20 mg 
 Placebo
Outcomes Complete heartburn relief 
 Marked improvement 
 Satisfactory daytime/night time relief
Notes ENRD
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information about the sequence generation process to permit judgement.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk The method of concealment not described.
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk "Trial participants and administering physicians were blinded as to whether patients were taking active drug or placebo. Any patients for whom the blinding code was broken because of an emergency were removed from the trial."
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk "The integrated analysis included all intent‐to‐treat (ITT) patients who received rabeprazole 20 mg once daily or placebo from the 2 studies."
Missing outcome data balanced in numbers across intervention groups, with similar reasons for missing data across groups.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Unclear
Other bias Unclear risk Unclear