Phillips 1998b.
| Methods | Same as for Phillips 1998a | |
| Participants | ||
| Interventions | ||
| Outcomes | ||
| Notes | ||
| Risk of bias | ||
| Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
| Adequate sequence generation? | Low risk | Block randomisation: blocks of 12 to one of three treatment groups, according to a predefined randomisation code. ensuring that an equal number of patients were allocated to each treatment group |
| Allocation concealment? | Unclear risk | Not reported |
| Blinding? All outcomes | Low risk | Double‐blind: participant and investigator blinded. "Active and placebo forms provided by Jansen Research Foundation and were blinded so that neither the investigators or the patients were aware of their contents." |