Dasgupta 1998.

Methods	Study design: parallel RCT Study time frame/recruitment period: not reported Follow‐up period: 14.3 months for Moncrief‐Popovich catheter group and 15.8 months for Tenckhoff catheter group
Participants	Country: Canada Setting: Single centre PD patients Number: treatment group (19); control group (20) Mean age ± SD (years): not reported Sex (M/F): not reported Diabetes: not reported Exclusion criteria: not reported
Interventions	Treatment group Moncrief‐Popovich catheter Control group Tenckhoff catheter
Outcomes	Catheter survival
Notes	Unable to contact author for additional data Abstract‐only publication
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)	High risk	Reported few outcomes
Other bias	Unclear risk	Insufficient information to permit judgement