Table 4.

McMaster critical review form for quantitative studies Risk of bias assessment for ‘Helping Babies Breathe Training’.

		Arabi	Bellad	Goudar	KC	Mduma	Msemo	Wrammert	Innerdal	Patterson
Study purpose		+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Literature		+	+	+	-	+/-	+	+	+	+
Sample	Description	+	+	+	+	+/-	+	+/-	+	+
	Sample size justified	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	-	-
Outcomes	Reliable	+	+	+	+	+	-	+/-	-	+
	Valid	+	+	+	-	+	-	+	+	+
Intervention	Description	+	-	+	+	+	+	-	+	-
	Contamination	+	-	-	-	+	-	-	+	+
	Cointervention	+	-	-	-	+	+	-	-	+
	In terms of statistical significance	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Analysis appropriate	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Clinical importance	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
	Drop-outs reported	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	+	-
Conclusions and implications		+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Score		13	11	12	10	12	11	8	11