Bangladesh 2007.

Methods	Randomised controlled trial.
Participants	400 labouring women (nulliparous/multiparous) in vertex presentation with no known risk for excessive third stage blood loss. No exclusion criteria were reported.
Interventions	Oral 400 mg misoprostol versus IM 10 IU oxytocin just after cord clamping.
Outcomes	Incidence of postpartum haemorrhage, estimation of average blood loss, the length of the third stage labour, manual removal of placenta, additional oxytocics, blood transfusion and side‐effects.
Notes	Active management of third stage labour. Blood loss was estimated on approximate bases by the delivering physician after collecting blood within a plastic bowl.
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Not clear on how the sequence generation was done.
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Not clear on how the allocation concealment was done.
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Not clear on blinding.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Low risk	No exclusions have been reported.
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	Primary outcomes of the review were reported.
Other bias	Low risk	At randomisation, the 2 groups were well‐balanced and comparable for demographic and labour characteristics.