Cummings 2012 UGA.
Methods | Case‐control study (unmatched) | |
Participants | Cases: people aged > 10 years who met the UMOH's outbreak case definition admitted to a cholera treatment centre in Moroto during April–June 2010; and resided in 1/15 selected villages in Nadunget, n = 99, median age 26 years, 64.6% female. Controls: people aged > 10 years who had not experienced any form of diarrhoea from April 2010 to the time of investigation, resided in 1/15 selected villages in Nadunget, n = 99, median age 33 years, 51.5% female. |
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Interventions | Risk factor of interest:
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Outcomes | Cholera: acute watery diarrhoea in an area with laboratory‐confirmed cholera cases | |
Notes | Location: rural Karamoja subregion, north‐east Uganda Length of recruitment: 3 months (April–June 2010) Publication status: journal |
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Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Unclear risk | NA |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | NA |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | NA |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | NA |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Unclear risk | NA |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Unclear risk | NA |
Other bias | Unclear risk | NA |
Similarity of baseline outcome measurements | Unclear risk | NA |
Similarity of baseline characteristics | Unclear risk | NA |
Adequate allocation of intervention concealment during the study | Unclear risk | NA |
Adequate protection against contamination | Unclear risk | NA |
Confounders adequately adjusted for in analysis/design | Unclear risk | NA |
Recruitment bias | Unclear risk | NA |
Baseline imbalance | Unclear risk | NA |
Loss of clusters | Unclear risk | NA |
Incorrect analysis | Unclear risk | NA |