Ozkaya 2009.
Methods | STUDY DESIGN: NRT Risk of Bias: HIGH |
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Participants | PROVIDERS: all staff in the ED PARTICIPANTS: all children with influenza‐like illness CLINICAL PROBLEM: reduction in antibiotic prescribing for influenza SETTING: 1 university hospital in Turkey | |
Interventions | FORMAT: Intervention: structural, rapid laboratory test for influenza Intervention Function: environmental restructuring DELIVERER: specialist physicians, Department of Paediatrics COMPARISON: usual care DESIRED CHANGE: decrease excessive |
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Outcomes | PRESCRIBING: Exposure: % children prescribed antibiotics | |
Notes | FINANCIAL SUPPORT: no information ADDITIONAL DATA: email response from authors but no additional data |
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Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Does not say how groups were allocated |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | Says there was blinding but unclear who was blinded. |
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | Says there was blinding but unclear who was blinded. |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Low risk | All included |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | Yes, all outcomes reported. |
Other bias | Low risk | |
Baseline Outcomes similar? | Unclear risk | No baseline outcome data |
Free of contamination? | High risk | Within same ward |
Baseline characteristics similar? | Low risk | Yes, Table 1 |