Escorsell 2000.

Methods	Randomised: yes, by computer generated sequence . Concealment: sealed and opaque envelopes . Double‐blind: no. Description of withdrawals/dropouts: yes. Length of FU: 42 days. Jadad score: 3/5
Participants	Country: France, Spain. Diagnosis of bleeding: by endoscopy. Source of bleeding: all confirmed or unconfirmed varices. Endoscopy in all patients prior to randomisation on average five hr after admission. Diagnosis of cirrhosis: histological or clinical. 219 patients with 219 admissions. Child's A = 20% B = 50% C = 30%. Alcoholic cirrhosis = 40%.
Interventions	Terlipressin versus sclerotherapy. R x 1: terlipressin 2 mg iv every 4 h until control of bleeding then 1mg evert 4 h for another five days. R x 2: sclerotherapy. Time from admission to treatment: 6.1 h. Initial sclerotherapy: not relevant.
Outcomes	1. Mortality at 42 days. 2. Failure of initial haemostasis at 48 h. 3. Rebleeding at 42 days. 4. Procedures required for haemostasis. 5. Blood transfusions. 6. LOS.
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Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Allocation concealment?	Low risk	A ‐ Adequate