6- How to Critically Appraise a Randomised Controlled Trial following the CASP checklist: Question 6

Barts Health Knowledge and Library Services’ Assad Lahlou goes through Question 6 of the CASP RCT Checklist,“Apart from the experimental intervention, did each study group receive the same level of care (that is, were they treated equally)?” in relation to the following paper:
Uchio Y, Enomoto H, Alev L, Kato Y, Ishihara H, Tsuji T, Ochiai T, Konno S. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III trial of duloxetine in Japanese patients with knee pain due to osteoarthritis. J Pain Res. 2018 Apr 18;11:809-821. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S164128. PMID: 29713194; PMCID: PMC5912377.