| Methods |
Trial conducted in Egypt; gestational age 16 to 24 weeks. |
| Participants |
40 women undergoing termination of pregnancy following both fetal demise or termination of a live fetus. |
| Interventions |
Women randomised to vaginal misoprostol (200 mcg at 8 hourly intervals) or intracervical prostaglandin F2 alpha. |
| Outcomes |
Vaginal birth not achieved within 24 hours; induction to birth interval; surgical evacuation of the uterus; vomiting; diarrhoea; pyrexia. |
| Notes |
Method of randomisation: "randomly allocated".
Allocation concealment: not stated.
Blinding of participants, caregivers and outcome assessors: not stated. |
| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Stated that patients were "randomly allocated". |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Not stated. |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Not stated. |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Low risk |
|
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
Low risk |
|
| Other bias |
Low risk |
|
