Random numbers are generated using Excel software by a statistician to do this.
Four-digit codes are generated. A four digit code is allocated to each patient and the last digit on the right indicates the patient group. if the number obtained is odd(1,3,5,7,9), the patient is in the chlorhexidine group and if the number is even(0,2,4,6,8), the patient is in the povidone-iodine group
Each of the generated codes is kept separately inside the envelope and the receptionist gives one of these envelopes to the patient before entering the operating room. Accordingly, the next patient code is not predictable. Based on the patient's code, the physician determines which treatments to implement, Only the physician who implements the intervention knows the code allocated to the patient, which after evaluating the outcome, based on thepatient's name, the information collected will be related to the assigned codes.