| Risk of Bias |
Author’s Judgment
Low Risk
Unclear
High Risk
|
Support for Judgment |
| Selection bias |
|
Only Enterobacteriaceae |
| Bias in definition and measurement |
|
AMS not well-defined |
| Outcome measurement bias |
|
Hospice discharge considered dead |
| Handling of missing data |
|
Reported missing data, but did not explain how they responded to this |
| Confounding |
|
Young patients and large Afro-American population |
| Bias of statistics or presentation of result |
|
Low Risk
Unclear
High Risk