Loverro 2001.

Methods	No. of centres: 1 Location: Bari, Italy Recruitment period: January 1996 to January 1997
Participants	Inclusion criteria: AFS score III‐IV Exclusion criteria: NS No. randomised: 62 No. analysed: 62?
Interventions	Post‐surgery medical therapy 1. Triptorelin SC 3.75 mg every 4 weeks x 3 months (n = 33) 2. No treatment (n = 29)
Outcomes	Pain Pregnancy rates
Notes	Power calculation: NS Funding: NS Pregnancy outcomes and pain recurrence were only expressed as percentages in each group so numbers calculated were rounded up to the nearest whole number
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	"prospective and randomized" ‐ no details of method of sequence generation
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	not mentioned
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) All outcomes	High risk	not mentioned, no placebo used
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	not stated how many women are included in the outcomes ‐ only percentages reported.
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	important outcomes ‐ time to relapse (pelvic pain) and pregnancy reported
Other bias	Unclear risk	no information on comparability of groups at baseline given