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. 2000 Apr 24;2000(2):CD002036. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD002036

4. Critical review form (randomised studies).

No. Data extraction Yes/No
1. Did study population meet our criteria?
 or: is it possible to analyse patients that meet our criteria separately?  
2. Was assignment of patients to treatment
 randomized?  
3. Were patients analysed in the groups 
 to which they were randomized?  
4. Were the groups similar 
 at the start of the trial?  
5. Aside from the experimental intervention, 
 were the groups treated equally?  
6. Were all patients who entered the trial 
 accounted for at its conclusion?  
7. How long was follow up?  
8. Were interventions defined adequately?  
9. How precise was the estimate of the 
 treatment effect? 
 ‐disease free survival
 ‐complications  
10. Were all clinically important 
 outcomes considered?
 ‐disease free survival
 ‐complications