China 2003a.

Methods	Randomised controlled trial.
Participants	156 women in labour who gave birth without complications via the birth canal and had no coagulation disorders or contraindications regarding the use of misoprostol.
Interventions	Oral 200 mcg dose of misoprostol immediately after delivery and another 200 mcg after 60 minutes versus no medication (a total of 400 mcg).
Outcomes	Haemorrhage occurrence rate, amount 2 hours after delivery and side‐effects.
Notes	No mention of active management of third stage labour. Blood loss was measured based on volume and weight.
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Unclear how the sequence generation was done.
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Unclear how the allocation concealment was done.
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	Unclear on blinding.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Low risk	No mention of loss to follow‐up or postrandomisation exclusions.
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Unclear risk	Not all of the primary outcomes of the review were reported.
Other bias	Low risk	2 groups were comparable.