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. 2011 Nov 9;2011(11):CD002199. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD002199.pub4

Mentes 2008.

Methods RCT
Participants CAF
Interventions Length of sphincter division: to apex or to achieve 30 mm aperture
Outcomes healing of the fissure, incontinence score, aperture size over time.
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk specified and adequate randomisation method
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes High risk inadequate
Drop‐outs 
 All outcomes Low risk 3/61 = 4.9%