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. 2019 Oct 18;2019(10):CD001233. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001233.pub3

Wu 2017.

Methods RCT
Participants Inclusion: 18–40 years old; 37 + 0‐41 + 6 gestational weeks; BS ≤ 6; single alive fetus with cephalic presentation; in cephalopelvic proportion; without premature rupture of membrane; NST reaction type before labour induction. The indications of labour induction included delayed pregnancy, oligohydramnios (AFI = 3.0–8.0 cm), gestational diabetes mellitus, intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, good control of gestational hypertension, with vaginal trial production condition and required pregnancy termination.
Exclusion: placenta previa, vasa previa and APH; invasive cervical carcinoma; untreated HIV infection; allergic to induction drugs.
Interventions Double‐balloon combined with IV drip of oxytocin (n = 60) AROM after 12 hours.
IV drip of oxytocin at a concentration of 0.5% (n = 60); AROM after 12 hours
If the patients did not enter the stage of active labour within 48 hours, the labour induction was regarded as failing, and other methods for pregnancy termination were used
Outcomes Postpartum haemorrhage, cervical laceration, uterine rupture, puerperal infection, neonatal asphyxia, neonatal infection and meconium aspiration syndrome
Notes Setting: China
Study period: January 2014 ‐ June 2015
Funding: grants received from the Nature Science Foundation of China, the Science and Technology Project of Special Funds of Guangzhou, Guangdong Science and Technology Project, the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province and Guangzhou Science and Technology Project
Declarations of interest: none declared
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Women randomly divided, no information given
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk No information reported on allocation concealment
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 Low risk ITT not mentioned, but is reasonable as numbers are equal to randomised numbers. no missing cases or data
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk All pre‐specified outcomes were reported
Other bias Low risk No other bias detected