ACHIEVE-2 — design and population

§2Design and population

§2.1Design and allocation

Design class

Randomised, double-blind, active-controlled, parallel-group

Masking

Double-blind (participant and investigator)

Arms

2

Allocation

Randomised between the intervention and its comparator

Endpoint adjudication

Not applicable to the primary endpoint of this design

Data monitoring

As specified in the protocol

§2.2Arms

Table 2. Randomised arms. Illustrative: arm-level allocations are reconstructed by the Institute from the design class and the randomised total where the published report does not state them.

§2.3Population

Indication. Type 2 diabetes mellitus

A disorder of glucose regulation characterised by insulin resistance with relative insulin deficiency, diagnosed by glycated haemoglobin, fasting plasma glucose or oral glucose tolerance criteria.

Geographic footprint. Poland · Republic of Korea · Australia · China.

§2.4Eligibility as the Institute reads it

• Included. A disorder of glucose regulation characterised by insulin resistance with relative insulin deficiency, diagnosed by glycated haemoglobin, fasting plasma glucose or oral glucose tolerance criteria.
• Excluded. Participants for whom the intervention is contraindicated, including not established — investigational. Exclusion criteria narrow the population to which the estimate applies and are the principal source of indirectness where a trial estimate is applied to ordinary practice.