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

Ozkaya 2009.

Methods STUDY DESIGN: NRT
Risk of Bias: HIGH
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
Outcomes PRESCRIBING: Exposure: % children prescribed antibiotics
Notes FINANCIAL SUPPORT: no information
ADDITIONAL DATA: email response from authors but no additional data
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