Woodville 1996.

Methods	Randomly assigned by the clinical trials officer.
Participants	104 Patients scheduled for elective inguinal hernia repair.
Interventions	Laparoscopic versus open non‐mesh inguinal herniorrhaphy. Laparoscopic group: repair performed by the TEP technique. All patients were given a general anaesthesia. Open group: repair performed by the Shouldice technique. All patients were given a local anaesthesia.
Outcomes	Included data items: Operation time (mins) Postoperative morbidity Postoperative stay (mins) Return to normal activity or work Hernia recurrence Other data items: Activity levels Postoperative pain (day 30, 180, 360, and 540) Use of analgesia
Notes	Trial excluded from a previous version of this review due to major deviation from intention to treat analysis.
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Allocation concealment?	Unclear risk	B ‐ Unclear

TAPP ‐ Transabdominal Preperitoneal 
 TEP ‐ Totally Extraperitoneal 
 GPRVS ‐ Giant Prosthetic Reinforcement of the Visceral Sac