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Study characteristics
Methods	Assessment of barriers to improve diabetes management in older adults Patient RCT, conducted with patients recruited from the Joslin Diabetes Center and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA Two arms: 1. Attention control (control arm) and 2. Intervention group (intervention arm)
Participants	Control arm N: 30 Intervention arm N: 70 Diabetes type: type 1 and type 2 Mean age: 75.0 ± 5.0 % Male: 46.0 Longest follow‐up: 12 months
Interventions	Control arm: None Intervention arm: 1) Case management 2) Promotion of self‐management
Outcomes	1) HbA1c, mean % (SD) Control arm: pre 9.0 (0.8), post 8.7 (NR) Intervention arm: pre 9.3 (1.2), post 8.6 (NR)
Funding source	The study was partly supported by a grant from a clinical research award from the American Diabetes Association, 1‐07‐CR‐40 (M.N.M.), and partly from the U.S. Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program of the Office of the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs, W81XWH‐07‐1‐0282 (M.N.M.)
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Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Low risk	Computer‐generated.
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Information not available.
Patient's baseline characteristics (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Not mentioned in text or table.
Patient's baseline outcomes (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Not mentioned in text or table.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)	Low risk	Minimal and equal number of losses, reasons similar.
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) and of outcome assessors (detection bias)	Unclear risk	Objective methods not described and outcome assessor blinding not described.
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	Matches protocol.
Risk of contamination (other bias)	Low risk	Information not available.
Other bias	Low risk	Information not available.