Methods | Re-analysed as an ITS design. One site, no control Weekly reminder introduced in January 2007 until August 2007 |
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Participants | Surgery department in a metropolitan tertiary care centre in the USA | |
Interventions | Online morbidity, mortality and anonymous near misses reporting system. For this review we were interested in one component of the intervention - the introduction of a weekly reminder to report complications and near-misses events | |
Outcomes | Incident reporting rate | |
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Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors’ judgement | Support for judgement |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes |
Unclear risk | Not specified in the paper |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Unclear risk | The outcome are not mentioned in the method section |
Other bias | Low risk | No evidence of other risk of bias |
Other changes | Unclear risk | Not specified in the paper |
Shape of the intervention | High risk | The intervention started in July 2005 and the analysis is from September 2005 to August 2007 |
Data collection | Low risk | The intervention itself included a change in the data collection method |
Allocated intervention | Low risk | Objective outcome measure |