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. 2016 Jun 7;2016(6):CD005542. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005542.pub3

Botta 1986.

Methods "Randomly divided".
Participants 10 women recruited from 8 weeks to 'term'.
Interventions CSII versus MDI.
Outcomes Gestational age at birth, caesarean section, weight gain during pregnancy, preterm birth, hyperbilirubinaemia, and maternal days hospitalised.
Notes Single‐centre trial in Italy.
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Not reported.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not reported.
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Blinding of the type of intervention from clinician and participant for the trials was not possible because of the nature of the study.
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Blinding of assessors not reported.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Not reported.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Pre‐specified outcomes not reported.
Other bias Unclear risk Small trial group, limited reporting.