Fracasso 2013.

Methods	Randomised controlled trial
Data	Setting: secondary care, USA. Participants were 60 patients with cancer recruited through the Siteman Cancer Center (SCC). Patients were identified by their medical, radiation, or surgical oncologist at the time of evaluation for treatment. Patients were ≥ 18 years of age; English speaking; self‐reported as a member of a racial or ethnic minority; diagnosed with advanced breast, colorectal, lung, or prostate carcinoma with an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 2
Comparisons	Investigated coaching as a way of improving recruitment Intervention: African American coach providing individualised, flexible education and support to create context of trust promoting trial enrollment Comparator: no coach (usual care)
Outcomes	Proportion recruited to trial
Notes
Risk of bias
Item	Authors' judgement	Description
Random Sequence generation ok?	Unclear	Says randomly allocated but nothing more
Allocation concealment?	Unclear	As above
Blinding of participants and personnel ok?	Unclear	Not clear what participants knew about the intervention prior to being randomised; all provided consent so they were told something
Blinding of outcome assessment ok?	Yes	Objective outcome (recruitment)
Incomplete outcome data handled ok?	Yes	6 died or were lost to follow‐up, but not clear which groups they were in. But unlikely due to intervention.
Free of selective reporting?	Unclear	Recruitment reported, and this is only outcome needed for review
Was the study free of other bias?	Unclear	No other biases apparent
Overall bias?	Unclear	Unclear risk of bias