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

Krass 2007.

Methods Randomised trial
Participants 335 diabetic patients (intervention 176; control 159)
56 pharmacies (intervention 28; control 28)
4 regions of Australia
Year of study: March 2004 to September 2004.
Interventions Educated about self‐monitoring and given meter for blood glucose, adherence support, medication review, self‐management and lifestyle. Individual goal‐setting and homework sheets to be completed by next visit
5 visits over 6 months
Outcomes Diastolic and systolic blood pressure
HbA1C
Notes Funding source: The Pharmacy Diabetes Care Program was funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing as part of the Third Community Pharmacy Agreement. Precision Link software from Abbott Diagnostics supported training and individual pharmacists in this study
Conflict of interest: None reported
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk States using Excel but does not say how
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Unclear how allocation concealment was conducted
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All Outcomes/Outcome 1 Unclear risk No blinding. Unclear if it may have influenced performance
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All Outcomes/Outcome 1 Low risk HbA1c unlikely to be biased by non‐blinding
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Between group attrition < 10%. Overall completion rate >80%.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk All outcomes reported
Other bias Low risk None identified