Armour 2007.

Methods	Randomised trial
Participants	396 asthma patients (intervention 191; control 205) Recruited from 50 pharmacies New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, Australia. Year of study: November 2004 to July 2005
Interventions	Pharmacy Asthma Care Program intervention included targeted counselling and asthma education, medication and lifestyle issues, review of inhaler technique, drug‐related problems, goal setting and review, and possible GP referral. This was developed through 3 visits across a 6‐month period, plus an optional visit at 3 months.
Outcomes	Forced Expiratory Volume (FEV1) at 6 months Mean change in FEV1 from baseline Asthma severity at 6 months
Notes	Funding source: Australian Department of Health and Ageing as part of the Third Community Pharmacy Agreement. Conflict of interest: None stated.
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	Method of randomisation not stated
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Low risk	Quote: "Pharmacists were not informed as to group allocation; both groups were informed that they were providing an asthma care service involving spirometry. Pharmacies were asked to recruit up to 10 subjects from their customers."
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All Outcomes/Outcome 1	Low risk	Quote: "Pharmacists were not informed as to group allocation; both groups were informed that they were providing an asthma care service involving spirometry."
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All Outcomes/Outcome 1	High risk	Participants were unblinded and this may have influenced measurement of FEV.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Low risk	Between group attrition < 10%. Overall competion rate 91%.
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Low risk	All outcomes reported
Other bias	Low risk	None identified