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. 2017 Feb 9;2017(2):CD003543. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003543.pub4

Hadi 2008.

Methods STUDY DESIGN: ITS
Risk of Bias: MEDIUM
Participants PROVIDERS: residents in internal medicine department
 PARTICIPANTS: patients with clinical problem
CLINICAL PROBLEM: antibiotics use in patients with a fever
SETTING: 5 wards in internal medicine department of teaching hospital in Indonesia
Interventions FORMAT: Interventions: educational meetings with dissemination of guidelines; educational outreach by academic detailing; reminders (physical, pocket book version of guideline)
 Intervention Functions: education, environmental restructuring, persuasion
 DELIVERER: AMT
COMPARISON: usual care
DESIRED CHANGE: reduce inappropriate
Outcomes PRESCRIBING: Exposure: % patients treated and total antibiotic consumption (DDD/100 patient days)
Notes FINANCIAL SUPPORT: Funding: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Scientific Programme Indonesia‐Netherlands (SPIN). Competing Interests: no information
ADDITIONAL DATA: no response from authors to request for additional data
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Intervention independent (ITS) ? High risk No, seasonal variation
Analysed appropriately (ITS) ? Low risk Re‐analysed
Shape of effect pre‐specified (ITS) ? Low risk Done, point of analysis is point of intervention.
Unlikely to affect data collection (ITS) ? Low risk Done, data was collected by trained data collectors.
Knowledge of the allocation adequately prevented(ITS)? High risk No, blinding was not possible.
Incomplete outcome data addressed (ITS) ? Low risk Done, states they assured completeness of data by collecting while patients were still in the department.
Free of selected reporting (ITS) ? Low risk Done, Figure 2
Free of other bias (ITS) ? Low risk Done, all biases addressed.