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. 2014 Jun 13;2014(6):CD001338. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001338.pub3

Henrich 2008 (T).

Methods Participants were "randomised" and a "closed envelope extracted from a box after gaining consent". No other details available.
Participants 224 women with singleton pregnancies at over 37 weeks. Women with BS of 7 or more were excluded.
Interventions Misoprostol‐group took at first 25μg orally, then 50μg, and on a third administration, 100 μg, each at a time, in a time span of four hours, up to a maximal dose of 175 μg the first day, and one of 300 μg in the second and third days. Minprostin‐group took each 6th hour 3 mg of Dinoprostone as vaginal tablets
Outcomes Labour and delivery outcomes.
 Neonatal outcomes.
Maternal side‐effect outcomes.
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information about the sequence generation process to permit judgement of ‘Low risk’ or ‘High risk’.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk A ‐ closed envelope.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement of ‘Low risk’ or ‘High risk’
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement of ‘Low risk’ or ‘High risk’.
Other bias Unclear risk Insufficient information to assess whether an important risk of bias exists.
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement of ‘Low risk’ or ‘High risk’.
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement of ‘Low risk’ or ‘High risk’.