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. 2014 Jan 8;2014(1):CD000031. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD000031.pub4

Siddiqi 2013.

Methods BUPROPION
Cluster randomized trial
Setting: health centres, Pakistan
Recruitment: patients from participating health centres with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis
Participants 33 health centres covering 1955 adult smokers with suspected tuberculosis (1299 included in arms relevant to this review), smoking ≥ 1cpd or smoking hookah on a daily basis
95%M, av age 41, av cpd 19 (where one hookah counts as 2 cigarettes)
Interventions 1. 7 weeks bupropion (75mg/d first week, 150mg/d thereafter)
2. No pharmacotherapy
Both arms: 2 sessions of brief, in‐person behavioural support
(Note, third arm received usual care only, not included in this review)
Outcomes Continuous abstinence at 6m
Validation: CO ≤ 9 ppm
Notes New for 2013
Reported narratively only due to substantial heterogeneity of program effects across clusters. 275/659 quit intervention vs 254/640 control, adjusted RR 1.1 (0.5–2.3).
Funding: International Development Research Centre
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Computer‐generated
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk Cluster randomized trial. “A researcher who was blinded to center identity” allocated conditions
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) 
 All outcomes High risk No blinding
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk No clinics dropped out post‐randomization. Over 90% of participants followed up at 6m
Other bias High risk Substantial heterogeneity of program effects across clusters. 20% of participants in control arm smoked only hookah (no cigarettes) compared to 4% in intervention arm.