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. 2019 Mar 26;2019(3):CD004705. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004705.pub5

Jamrozik 1984.

Methods Setting: 6 general practices, the UK
 Recruitment: clinic, first visit
 Selected: outpatients
Participants 2110 smokers (defined as a person admitting to smoking cigarettes) out of 6052 screened. 1040 in relevant arms
 61% female, no detailed patient characteristics given. Significant difference of social classes between groups
 Therapist: physician
Interventions Intervention: demonstration of participant exhaled CO plus verbal advice plus booklet
 Control: verbal advice plus booklet
2 study arms were not relevant to this review
Outcomes Definition of abstinence: point prevalence
 Duration of follow‐up: 12 months
 Biochemical validation of non‐smokers: urinary cotinine in a sample (41%) of self‐reported non‐smokers
Identification  
Notes Outcome based on unvalidated data. Between 24% and 40% may have misrepresented smoking status, but no evidence of differential misreporting between groups.
Sources of funding: Nuffield Dominions Trust and the Health Education Council. National Institute on Drug Abuse, DA 2507, D A0007 for cotinine assays. Helen Van Vunakis is the recipient of a US Public Health Service Career Award 5K6/A 12372.
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) High risk Randomised according to day of attendance, balanced over 4 weeks
Allocation concealment (selection bias) High risk Allocation known at enrolment, possibility of selection bias
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Outcome based on unvalidated data. Between 24% and 40% may have misrepresented smoking status, but no evidence of differential misreporting between groups.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk 28% lost to follow‐up across all 4 arms, treated as smokers. No information on differential loss