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. 2018 Sep 4;2018(9):CD013102. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013102

Garção 2002.

Methods Randomised trial
Participants 100 hypertensive patients (intervention: 50; control: 50)
1 community pharmacy
Maxial, Portugal
Year of study: April 2000 to September 2000.
Interventions Individualised intervention based on health promotion by pharmacist 
 Monthly visits for 6 months
Outcomes Systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) at 9 months
BP in target range at 6 months
Notes Funding source: Not specified
Conflict of interest: None stated
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk No randomisation technique described
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Allocation not described
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All Outcomes/Outcome 1 Unclear risk Uncear if blinded or consequences of non‐blinding
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All Outcomes/Outcome 1 High risk Study pharmacist was not blinded and took all measures.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Between group attrition < 10%.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk All outcomes reported
Other bias Low risk None identified