Gerrity 1999.

Methods	Provider RCT Follow up: providers: DONE patients: N/A Blinded assessment: DONE Baseline: NOT DONE Reliable outcomes: NOT CLEAR Protection against contamination: NOT CLEAR Overall quality: MODERATE
Participants	49 primary care physicians (two standardized simulated patients) Country: UK Proportion of eligible providers who participated: NOT CLEAR Setting of care: General practice Academic/Teaching setting: NON‐TEACHING Type of targeted behaviour: GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF A PROBLEM (depression) Complexity of targeted behaviour: MEDIUM
Interventions	1. CME: 4hr x 2 education sessions given two weeks apart with guidelines + goal‐setting + doing a videotape of a patient interview as homework for discussion at last session 2. No intervention control
Outcomes	Professional practice: physicians' behaviour as reported by standardised patients Patient: None Seriousness of outcome: MODERATE
Notes	No baseline data
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	B ‐ Unclear