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% |