Chang 2004.
Methods | ITS analysis Data were not analysed appropriately* |
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Participants | All patients on the surveillance system of a University Medical centre, Taiwan who had a total of 24,406 tooth extractions before the intervention and 28,084 tooth extractions after the intervention | |
Interventions | Educational programme administered between 1999 to 2001 in which residents and interns from all specialities were given a training session about cases of erroneous tooth extraction, an explanation of the recently developed clinical guidelines regarding extraction and feedback to each speciality by instructors | |
Outcomes | Annual incidence rates of wrong‐site tooth extraction | |
Notes | *Data re‐analysed | |
Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Intervention independent of other changes? | Unclear risk | No statement of another intervention occurring concurrently |
Shape of the intervention effect pre‐specified? | Low risk | Point of analysis is point of intervention |
Intervention unlikely to affect data collection? | Low risk | Unlikely to affect data collection ‐ data collection the same before and after the intervention |
Knowledge of the allocated interventions adequately prevented during the study | Low risk | Objective outcomes |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Low risk | Unlikely to have missing outcome data |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | The pre‐specified outcomes that are of interest in the review have been reported in the pre‐specified way |
Other bias | Low risk | Data re‐analysed |