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." |