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

Weidman 2010.

Methods Randomised interventional cluster trial
Participants Who: Postgraduate year 2 internal medicine residents
Number: 30 eligible to be randomised, 14 randomised to intervention
Proportion of eligible staff participating: Implies all participated
Interventions Intervention description: Resuscitation training plus simulation
Control: Resuscitation training alone
Location: Simulation laboratory
Delivered by: Faculty delivered
Length: 4 hours
Duration: Single session
Outcomes Outcomes: Compression rate, depth, ventilation rate, no‐flow fraction, pre‐ and post‐shock pause, appropriate shocks, survival to hospital discharge, and return of spontaneous circulation
Follow‐up: 8 months
Population studied Description: Resuscitation attempts at the study hospital
Number: 98 cardiac arrests
Funding Source National Institutes of Health Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Study Setting An academic tertiary care hospital in the USA
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Computerised random number generation
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk Predetermined rules as to allocation post‐randomisation
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes High risk Not possible to blind participants
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Study personnel blinded to training.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk No discussion
Selective reporting (reporting bias) High risk Reported more outcomes than mentioned in methods
Other bias High risk Possible contamination between intervention and control