Table 1.

Criteria for methodological assessment of clinical trials used to review studies of home care programmes for patients with incurable cancer

Criterion	Weight
Study population
A: Selection and homogeneity	6
B: Design	11
C: Comparability of groups	9
D: Drop out handling	6
E: Number of patients included	15
Interventions
F: Description of interventions and standard care	15
G: Simultaneous interventions	6
Effect
H: Blinding of people who collected outcome measures	5
I: Use of appropriate outcome measures	8
J: Follow up	6
Data presentation and analysis
K: Statistical analysis	10
L: Data presentation	3
Total	100

See appendix for more details.