| Methods |
RCT. |
| Participants |
38 women with term pregnancy, Bishop score 4 or 5. |
| Interventions |
IV oxytocin
vs
vaginal PGE2 3 mg x 1. |
| Outcomes |
Vaginal delivery not achieved in 24 hrs, C/S, cervix unfavourable/unchanged after 12‐24 hrs, instrumental vaginal delivery, Apgar score < 7 at 5 minutes, maternal vomiting, maternal diarrhea. |
| Notes |
No mention of randomisation technique or allocation concealment. |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Adequate sequence generation? |
Unclear risk |
No information provided. |
| Allocation concealment? |
Unclear risk |
Described as "randomly treated". |
| Blinding?
Women |
High risk |
Not feasible. Different treatment regimes. |
| Blinding?
clinical staff |
High risk |
|
| Blinding?
outcome assessor |
High risk |
|
| Incomplete outcome data addressed?
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Low attrition (5%) but the 2 women lost to follow up were not included in analysis as they did not complete the treatment protocol. |
| Free of selective reporting? |
Low risk |
|
| Free of other bias? |
Low risk |
|
