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. 2009 Apr 15;2009(2):CD003030. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003030.pub2

de Almeida Neto 2000.

Methods Provider RCT 
 Follow up:
providers: DONE 
 patients: N/A 
 Blinded assessment: NOT CLEAR 
 Baseline: DONE 
 Reliable outcomes: NOT CLEAR 
 Protection against contamination: DONE
Overall quality: MODERATE
Participants 24 pharmacists in 24 pharmacies 
 Country: Australia 
 Proportion of eligible providers who participated: NOT CLEAR 
 Community‐based care
Academic/Teaching setting: NOT CLEAR 
 Type of targeted behaviour: PRESCRIBING (inappropriate drug use) 
 Complexity of targeted behaviour: LOW
Interventions 1. CME: interactive and didactic seminar presenting a pharmacy‐based protocol based on the Stages of change model with practicing of skills, 3 hrs 
 2. No intervention control
Outcomes Professional practice: pharmacist behaviour observed by pseudo‐patrons 
 Patient: none
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk B ‐ Unclear