Gunawansa 2011.

Methods	Study design: parallel RCT Study duration: January 2009 and August 2013 Duration of follow‐up: mean 16 (12 to 36) months
Participants	Country: Sri Lanka Setting: single‐centre Live donor kidney transplants for recipients with ESKD Number: treatment group (203); control group (179) Mean age ± SD (years): not reported Sex (M/F): not reported Exclusion criteria: not stated
Interventions	Treatment group Early stent removal of PU stent tied to tip of urinary catheter intraoperatively and removed simultaneously with the catheter at the bedside at day 6 Control group Late stent removal via flexible cystoscopy at day 28
Outcomes	MUC (ureteric anastomotic stenoses) UTI
Notes	Abstract‐only publications; no response from author regarding requests for further information Prospectively followed up for MUC & UTI, no other detailed information available Funding source: not reported
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Insufficient information to permit judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Insufficient information to permit judgement
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Insufficient information to permit judgement
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Insufficient information to permit judgement
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Insufficient information to permit judgement
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Unclear risk	Insufficient information to permit judgement
Other bias	Unclear risk	Insufficient information to permit judgement