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

Schneider 1982.

Methods Randomised trial
Participants 40 patients with essential hypertension and congestive heart failure (intervention 20; control 20)
 Health professional (delivering intervention): 1
 Practice: 1
Outpatient medicine clinic
University Hospital Clinic, Ohio State University, USA
 Year of study: Not stated.
Interventions Pharmaceutical care
Pharmacist examined and evaluated patients during a clinic visit
 Pharmacist communicated findings and suggestions to physician, vs usual care
 Length of intervention: 12 months
Outcomes Systolic and diastolic blood pressure
% target blood pressure achieved
Notes Funding source: Not specified
Conflict of interest: Not stated
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Quote: "Patients were randomly assigned to a study or a control group".
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not explicitly described
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All Outcomes/Outcome 1 Unclear risk The personnel (doctors and pharmacists) were not necessarily unblinded and this may have influenced protocol implementation.
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All Outcomes/Outcome 1 Low risk BP mostly objective
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Data from all 40 patients presented.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk All outcomes mentioned in Methods appear in Results
Other bias Low risk None