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. 2011 Nov 9;2011(11):CD002855. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD002855.pub4

WHO 2001 GP1pv.

Methods computer generated sequence of random numbers in block of ten, 
 identical placebo tablets
Participants multicentre trial, 10 centres: Chandigarh, Edinburgh, Havana, Hong Kong, Ljubljana, Shanghai, Stockholm, Szeged, Tbilisi, Tianjin 
 896 women, at 57 to 63 days of gestation with regular menstrual cycles, pregnancy confirmed clinically or by ultrasound 
 exclusion criteria: contraindication to the study drugs, chronic respiratory, digestive, endocrine, genito‐urinary, neurological or cardio‐vascular disease, severe liver disease, history of thrombo‐embolism, IUCD in situ, breastfeeding
Interventions group 1: mifepristone 200 mg 
 group 2: mifepristone 600 mg 
 and gemeprost 1 mg after 48 hours (all)
Outcomes complete, incomplete, missed abortion, time to onset of bleeding, duration of bleeding, time to return to menses, bleeding before gemeprost, time of expulsion
Notes power calculation ( 80% power at a significant level of 0.05 ) 
 intention ‐to ‐treat analysis 
 2 women received blood transfusion, not mentioned which group
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk A ‐ Adequate