Table 5.

Comments and reactions to making health equity plausibility judgments

Reason for answer	theory-10; personal experience- 11; empirical data-3 guesses-4;
Other information needed	more intervention specific information and data
	how big are the differences being sought?
	how does comparator overlap with intervention delivery
	was information available from trials?
	consider including community cluster trials
	Need information on how intervention was delivered
General comments	Important to consider these issues in design of SR-5
	Difficult- 4;
	Interesting to consider these issues-5;
	Subjective-6;
	Why only gender and SES- need to consider other factors (e.g. sexual orientation)- 2
	Country differences are important- e.g. if universal drug coverage is available-1
	Accessibility of drugs is less of an issue-1
	Ask questions about heterogeneity-1
	Intervention delivery is important for understanding
	Easy-1