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 |