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. 2017 Apr 21;2017(4):CD011384. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011384.pub2

Hansky 1969.

Methods Randomised clinical trial
Participants Country: Australia
 Number randomised: 24
 Postrandomisation dropouts: not stated
 Revised sample size: 24
 Average age: not stated
 Women: 7 (29.2%)
 Acute interstitial oedematous pancreatitis: not stated
 Necrotising pancreatitis: not stated
 Mild pancreatitis: 3 (12.5%)
 Moderate pancreatitis: 15 (62.5%)
 Severe pancreatitis: 6 (25%)
 Persistent organ failure: not stated
 Infected pancreatitis: not stated
 Inclusion criteria: people with acute pancreatitis
Interventions Group 1: iniprol (n = 15), single IV dose of 1 million units, followed by 500,000 units IV 4 times daily for 4‐8 days depending upon clinical course
 Group 2: no intervention (n = 9)
Outcomes Mortality, hospital stay
Follow‐up: not stated (probably until discharge)
Notes Reasons for postrandomisation dropouts: not stated
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Comment: this information was not available.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Comment: this information was not available.
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Quote: "[t]he drug was not evaluated in a double‐blind manner".
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Quote: "[t]he drug was not evaluated in a double‐blind manner".
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Comment: this information was not available.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) High risk Comment: either mortality or adverse events were not reported.
For profit‐bias High risk Quote: "I am grateful to Difrex (Australia) laboratories for supplying . . ."
Other bias Low risk Comment: no other risk of bias