Nanulescu 1999.

Methods	RCT Generation of allocation sequence: randomly assigned Allocation concealment: not reported Blinding: none Inclusion of participants in analysis: 88% (rice group, 48/56, 86%; glucose group, 51/57, 89%) Duration: 12 months, from 1 May 1995 to 1 May 1996
Participants	Number of participants: 113 enrolled Inclusion criteria: age 1 to 12 months; acute watery diarrhoea; presence of mild or moderate dehydration; weight for age > 80% of 50th centile Exclusion criteria: newborn; presence of bloody diarrhoea; systemic illness; intake of antibiotics; severe dehydration; moderate to severe malnutrition
Interventions	Glucose ORS: 51 participants. Rice ORS: 48 participants.
Outcomes	Total stool output in first 24 hours. Duration of diarrhoea. Number of participants with unscheduled use of intravenous fluid.
Glucose‐based ORS osmolarity	≤ 270 mOsm/L
Setting	Paediatric clinic Location: Ciuj‐Napoca, Romania
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Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	RCT: randomly assigned
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Not reported
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	High risk	Participants, providers. and outcome assessors not blinded
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	High risk	Participants, providers. and outcome assessors not blinded
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	High risk	The trial included only 88% of the randomized participants in the analysis
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	High risk	The trial reported only 88% of the included participants in the final analysis
Other bias	Unclear risk	We did not detect any other sources of bias