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

Szilagyi 2015.

Methods Randomised trial in the USA
Participants Participants: providers
Number per group: PBRN consisted of 10 practices; 5 intervention and 5 controls while from the national paediatric continuity clinic PBRN (CORNET) consisted of 12 practices; 6 intervention, 6 controls.
Number enrolled: 22 practices
Study population: 22 practices were allocated in 1 of 2 PBRNs to provider prompts or standard‐of‐care control. 10 primary care practices participated, 5 intervention and 5 controls, each matched in pairs on urban, suburban, or rural location and practice type (paediatric or family medicine), from a PBRN in Greater Rochester, NY (GR‐PBRN); and 12 practices, 6 intervention, 6 controls, similarly matched, from a national paediatric continuity clinic PBRN (CORNET).
Interventions Intervention: EHR prompt
Description: the EHR display a prompt on the screen when a healthcare provider opens each of the patient's EMRs. In the study, all prompts used the same algorithm and displayed a list of vaccines due at that visit. Prompts did not generally show prior vaccinations and did not include standing orders. For each intervention practice, between 1‐ and 2‐hour educational sessions was given to the providers to inform them about EHR‐based prompts.
Duration: 12‐month
Comparison: usual practice
Description: providers in the control practices received standard of care, which did not include prompts
Vaccine target: Tdap, MCV4, HPV, and influenza vaccines
Disease targeted: meningitis, HPV, influenza, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis
Number of doses: 3 doses for HPV. Others not specified
Outcomes Uptake of Tdap; MCV4; HPV1, 2, and 3; and influenza vaccines
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk SAS software program used to randomly allocate to the intervention or control.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk Using Stata 12.1, 1 author (AB) randomly assigned practices within each PBRN and practice pair to be an intervention or a standard of care control practice.
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 Healthcare providers were unaware of group assignment and the intervention was delivered by trained patient immunisation navigators.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Loss of 1 practice pair from the GR‐PBRN and refusal rates were similar for intervention and control practices.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk Probably no selective reporting.
Other bias Low risk No other bias.