Baeten 1992.

Methods	Single‐centre parallel randomised controlled trial Setting: 1 hospital in the Netherlands Sample size: not reported
Participants	Ninety patients with neurologic problems, ear, nose and throat tumours and surgical problems. 56 male, 34 female; mean age 72 (62 to 82) Inclusion criteria: indication for enteral nutrition Exclusion criteria: contra‐indication for either method
Interventions	PEG (n = 44) ‐ Freka set (Fresenius) NGT (n = 46) ‐silicone tube 14 inch inserted by nurse
Outcomes	Mortality Treatment failures Adverse events Pneumonia Patient convenience (5‐point graded scale from 1 = very convenient to 5 = very inconvenient) Nurse convenience (5‐point graded scale from 1 = very convenient to 5 = very inconvenient) Time for enteral nutrition (days) Time for insertion (minutes)
Notes	Follow‐up: mean nutrition time 17.9 ± 19.9 days
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Not reported
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Low risk	Sealed envelopes
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	High risk	Not possible for this type of intervention
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	High risk	Outcome assessors not blinded as explicitly referred by the authors
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Low risk	There were no withdrawals reported by the study investigators
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	Relevant outcomes analysed
Other bias	High risk	Follow‐up was not previously established