Taner 1994.

Methods	Random selection
Participants	44 women requesting sterilisation.
Interventions	Minilaparotomy vs laparoscopy with 3 puncture method) and Pomeroy method for sterilisation. General anaesthesia for all women.
Outcomes	Duration of operation, length of hospital stay, length of excised tube, minor morbidity, failure rate
Notes	No inclusion/exclusion criteria were reported. Discussion refers mostly to other studies done in that field. Company providing equipment for laparoscopy mentioned, possible conflict of interest not stated.
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Allocation concealment?	Unclear risk	B ‐ Unclear