| Methods |
RCT unblinded. |
| Participants |
83 participants. 68 men, 15 women. Mean age 26.6 years (range 19‐31). New presentation. |
| Interventions |
Open wide excision vs. open limited excision vs. wide excision and primary midline closure. |
| Outcomes |
Healing time, recurrence pain, satisfaction, LOS. |
| Notes |
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| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Adequate sequence generation? |
Unclear risk |
Quote: "Randomly assigned". |
| Allocation concealment? |
Unclear risk |
Quote: "closed envelope randomisation". No mention if they were opaque. |
| Incomplete outcome data addressed?
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
No information on exclusions, attrition, or missing data. |
| Free of selective reporting? |
High risk |
Selective under reporting: not enough information about time to wound healing include within a meta analysis. Data presented in a graph. |
| Free of other bias? |
Low risk |
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