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. 2010 Nov 10;2010(11):CD003940. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003940.pub3

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."