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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Aug 15;8:CD005609. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005609.pub2
Methods Re-analysed as an ITS design.
One site, no control
Weekly reminder introduced in January 2007 until August 2007
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
Notes
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