Hadi 2008.
Methods | STUDY DESIGN: ITS Risk of Bias: MEDIUM |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |