Hong 2002.

Methods	Data collection: 12/1998 to 9/2001. Exclusion from analysis: death or surgery within 24 h. Follow‐up period: 30 days.
Participants	Korea Hospitalised cirrhotic patients with oesophageal variceal bleeding, without infection or previous use of antibiotics. Initial infection assessment: physical examination, white blood cells count, liver function test, ascitic fluid analysis and culture. All patients were enrolled after emergency endoscopic oesophageal variceal ligation. Child‐Pugh class: 8.8 ± 1.6 vs 9.1 ± 1.4.
Interventions	Experimental: intravenous ciprofloxacin 200 mg b.i.d. for 3 days. Control: no antibiotic prophylaxis.
Outcomes	Prevention of bacterial infections.
Notes	The authors were contacted via e‐mail and no response was received (23‐June‐2010).
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Adequate sequence generation?	Unclear risk	No information provided.
Allocation concealment?	Unclear risk	No information provided.
Blinding? All outcomes	High risk	Not a blinded trial.
Incomplete outcome data addressed? All outcomes	Unclear risk	No information provided.
Free of selective reporting?	Low risk	The report include all the expected outcomes.
Free of other bias?	Unclear risk	No information provided.
Intention to treat analysis?	Unclear risk	No information provided.
Sample calculation?	Unclear risk	No information provided.