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. 2020 Jan 17;2020(1):CD011895. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011895.pub2

Perkins 2015.

Methods Cluster randomised trial in the USA
Participants Participants: healthcare providers and their patients including boys and girls aged 11–21 years
Number per group: 2 intervention health centres (4093 participants) and 6 control health centres (9025 participants)
Total number enrolled: 13,118 participants
Study population: healthcare workers (physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants, and medical assistants). Only physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants with their own patient panels were eligible to receive personalised feedback on vaccination rates. As an incentive, physicians were eligible to receive maintenance of certification (MOC) Part IV credits, which fulfilled the requirements for maintaining board certification. Boys and girls aged 11–21 years from low‐income populations who received primary care in the Pediatric/Adolescent Departments at an intervention or control practice.
Interventions Intervention: multi‐component performance improvement continuing medical education intervention
Description: intervention included:
  • 6–8 education visits over 12 months by an HPV physician‐educator;

  • focused education sessions on HPV‐related topics designed to change the way providers viewed the importance of HPV vaccination and responded to parents' hesitation toward HPV vaccines;

  • individualised feedback where providers and practices received individual reports that showed their performance compared to other providers in their practice on HPV vaccination coverage. Those practices that showed initiatives to improve systems for HPV series completion were given support;

  • quality improvement incentives where physicians were eligible to receive MOC credits, which fulfilled requirements for maintaining board certification in paediatrics.


Comparison: usual practice
Description of comparison: none
Duration: 2 years
Vaccine target: HPV vaccines
Disease targeted: HPV infection
Number of doses: 3 doses
Outcomes HPV vaccine uptake
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Selection of the practice for the intervention or control condition was random.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk Included centres allocated randomly.
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk The outcome is an objective measure.
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk The outcome is an objective measure.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Data available through a common electronic medical records' system.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk All practices used the same electronic medical records' system.
Other bias Low risk No evidence of other biases.