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. 2019 Sep 24;2019(9):CD012177. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012177.pub2

Sorensen 2015.

Methods Single‐centre randomised superiority educational trial
Participants Who: Shift working staff on the labour ward
Number: 100 randomised
Proportion of eligible staff participating: 249 eligible; 40% participation
Interventions Intervention description: In situ multiprofessional obstetric anaesthesia training simulations
Control: Off‐site training
Location: Either in the delivery room/theatre or hospital rooms away from patient care location
Delivered by: Representatives from the multidisciplinary working committee for the study
Length: 1 day
Duration: Single intervention
Outcomes Outcomes: Safety Attitude Questionnaire Results
Follow‐up: 4 to 6 weeks postintervention
Population studied Description: Staff in the obstetric and anaesthetic departments of University of Copenhagen
Number: 100
Funding Source Danish Regions Development and Research Foundation, the Laerdal Foundation for
 Acute Medicine, and Aase and Ejnar Danielsen Foundation
Study Setting Obstetrics and gynaecology department of Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Computerised and undertaken by trials unit
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk Concealed from investigators
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Not possible
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Data managers, statisticians, and investigators blinded.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Low amount of missing data
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk All outcomes in protocol reported in trial.
Other bias High risk Possible contamination between intervention and control