| Methods |
RCT. |
| Participants |
47 women PROM, term pregnancy, primips, Bishop score < 5. |
| Interventions |
IV oxytocin, immediate. 2 mU per minute increasing by 2 mU per minute every 30 minutes up to 24 mU per minute
vs
vaginal PGE2 3.0 mg, then IV oxytocin 4 hrs later. |
| Outcomes |
C/S, instrumental vaginal delivery, Apgar score < 7 at 5 minutes, maternal nausea, maternal vomiting, maternal diarrhoea. |
| 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 given. |
| Allocation concealment? |
Unclear risk |
Not described. |
| Blinding?
Women |
High risk |
Different treatment regimes. |
| Blinding?
clinical staff |
High risk |
|
| Blinding?
outcome assessor |
High risk |
|
| Incomplete outcome data addressed?
All outcomes |
Low risk |
No post‐randomisation exclusions apparent. |
| Free of selective reporting? |
Low risk |
|
| Free of other bias? |
Unclear risk |
Small study without powere to detect differences in outcomes. |
