Fecal microbiota transplantation as novel therapy in gastroenterology: A systematic review

Table 2 Methodological quality of included randomised trials

Ref.	Random sequence generation	Allocation concealment	Blinding	Incomplete outcome data	Selective reporting
Vrieze et al[10]	Low1	Unclear2	Low3	Low4	Low
van Nood et al[18]	Low1	Unclear2	High3	Low	Low

¹Automated biased coin minimization, computer generated randomisation not in the paper but verified by the first author;

²Not described; rated as unclear for this item;

³Patients were randomised to either allogenic or autologous feces a, open label design;

⁴All patients completed the study; two subjects were excluded from analyses because of antibiotic use during the trial unrelated to the microbial infusion, all except one patient (due to a clinically driven protocol deviation) were taken into the intention to treat analyses.