Kuppulakshmi 2016.

Methods	RCT
Participants	Not mentioned
Interventions	intracervical dinoprostone (n = 100): 0.5 mg, 6‐hourly, max 2 doses Foley catheter (n = 100), 30 mL, max 12 hours in place.
Outcomes	Vaginal delivery within 24 hours, improvement in BS, induction to onset of active labour and induction to delivery interval, mode of delivery, occurrence of maternal complications and fetal outcome, cost‐effectiveness
Notes	Setting: India Study period: June 2015 ‐ July 2016 Funding: not reported Declarations of interest: not reported
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Only described that patients were randomly allocated
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Only described that patients were randomly allocated
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Not feasible due to nature of intervention
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Not reported
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	No missing data described, difficult to judge how selection of patients was done, if there was ITT, if patients were excluded. no numbers of analysed patient in result section
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	Pre specified outcomes reported in method section were all reported
Other bias	Low risk	No other bias detected