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. 2010 Jan 20;2010(1):CD003974. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003974.pub3

Schallreuter 2002.

Methods Design: three group parallel trial 
 Purpose: examine the effect of pseudocatalase cream and placebo on repigmentation in vitiligo
Participants Patients: out‐patients with vitiligo 
 Baseline comparability: NS
Interventions Placebo: cream with no pseudocatalase 
 Untreated: no cream 
 Experimental: cream with pseudocatalase 
 (Co‐intervention: climatotherapy)
Outcomes No or minimal repigmentation (photographs graded 0 to 3)
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Adequate sequence generation? Unclear risk NS
Allocation concealment? Unclear risk NS
Blinding? 
 Treatment provider Unclear risk NS
Blinding? 
 Outcome assessor Unclear risk NS
Incomplete outcome data addressed? 
 All outcomes High risk Drop‐out > 15% or NS
Free of selective reporting? Unclear risk No protocol available
Free of other bias? Low risk  
No signs of variance inequality or skewness? Unclear risk Not relevant (binary outcome)
Trial size > 49? High risk N = 20
Clearly concealed allocation + trial size > 49 + drop‐out max 15% High risk Trial size < 49