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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
Intervention implemented from July 2000
Participants Four administratively linked hospitals in Dallas, Texas
Interventions Web-based “patient occurrence system” not limited to medical error
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) Low risk All relevant outcome reported
Other bias Low risk No evidence of other risk of bias
Other changes Unclear risk Not specified in the paper
Shape of the intervention Unclear risk It is not clear what is the point of analysis
Data collection Low risk The intervention itself included a change in the data collection method
Allocated intervention Low risk Objective outcome measure