Evans 2007.
| Methods | CBA design Intervention run from June to August 2003, with units implementing it over a 40‐week period |
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| Participants | Nursing staff working in 20 units in four major cities and two regional hospitals of South Australia | |
| Interventions | Intense education, a range of reporting options, changes in report management and enhanced feedback | |
| Outcomes | Incident reporting rate | |
| Notes | ||
| Risk of bias | ||
| Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) | High risk | Non random allocation |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Not specified in the paper |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Not specified in the paper |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | All outcomes analysed. |
| Other bias | Low risk | None identified. |
| Allocated intervention | Low risk | Objective outcome data |
| Baseline outcome measurement similar? | High risk | See Table 2 |
| Baseline characteristics similar? | High risk | See Table 1 |
| Protection against contamination? | Low risk | No evidence of contamination |