Feldman 2004.

Methods	Cluster RCT Follow up: providers: DONE patients: NOT CLEAR Blinded assessment: DONE Baseline: NOT DONE Reliable outcomes: DONE Protection against contamination: NOT CLEAR Overall quality: MODERATE
Participants	205 nurses in a large urban home health care agency and their 371 Medicare congestive heart failure patients Country: USA Proportion of eligible providers who participated: NOT CLEAR Community‐based care Academic/Teaching setting: NOT CLEAR Type of targeted behaviour: GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF A PROBLEM (care for patients with heart failure) Complexity of targeted behaviour: HIGH
Interventions	1. CME: interactive practitioner training with role‐play and audiotaping 2. No intervention control
Outcomes	Professional practice: mean number of skilled nursing visits delivered within 90 days Patient: none Seriousness of outcome: HIGH
Notes	No baseline data
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	B ‐ Unclear