Ford 2004.

Methods	Randomised controlled trial
Data	Setting: community, USA. 12,400 African American men aged 55 to 74 eligible for a prostate, lung and colorectal cancer screening trial
Comparisons	Investigated the effect of different trial information and consent methods Intervention A: enhanced recruitment letter, telephone call by African American interviewer, baseline information by mail, reminder calls/mailings for baseline information/consent Intervention B: enhanced recruitment letter, telephone call by African American interviewer, baseline information over telephone, reminder calls/mailings for consent form Intervention C: enhanced recruitment letter, telephone call by African American interviewer, church session, baseline information at church session Compared to standard recruitment letter, telephone assessment by African American or white interviewer, baseline information by mail, reminder calls/mailings for baseline information/consent
Outcomes	Proportion recruited to trial
Notes
Risk of bias
Item	Authors' judgement	Description
Random Sequence generation ok?	Unclear	Randomised but no more details
Allocation concealment?	Unclear	As above
Blinding of participants and personnel ok?	Unclear	Potential participants were blinded but the researchers probably were not blinded
Blinding of outcome assessment ok?	Yes	Objective outcome
Incomplete outcome data handled ok?	Yes	Adequate
Free of selective reporting?	Yes	Recruitment outcome presented, which is all the review needs
Was the study free of other bias?	Yes	No other biases apparent
Overall bias?	Unclear	Unclear risk of bias