Altschuler 2008.

Methods	Retrospective series
Participants	684 women 3–22 years after they had had RRM between 1979 and 1999, who were aged 18–80 years at 6 community health centers were mailed surveys
Interventions	BRRM = 177 CRRM = 567
Outcomes	Quality of life ‐ general satisfaction
Notes	519 CRRM subjects duplicates of Geiger 2006
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Free of selection bias?	Low risk	A consecutive sample of a clearly defined population was chosen. These were women who had RRM at least 3 years previously in 6 health systems and were selected from a medical record review from the Cancer Research Network database.
Free of performance bias?	Low risk	Exposure was confirmed in an objective way, via medical record review from the Cancer Research Network database.
Free of detection bias?	High risk	There were no pre‐CRRM assessments of psychosocial factors for comparison and it is unknown whether the questionnaire used had been tested for reliability or validity
Free of attrition bias?	High risk	78 BRRM and 205 CRRM women did not respond to closed‐ended questionnaire A further 39 BRRM and 318 women did not respond to 2 open‐ended questions