Gilroy 2004.

Methods	Cluster RCT Follow up: providers: NOT CLEAR patients: N/A Blinded assessment: NOT CLEAR Baseline: NOT DONE Reliable outcomes: DONE Protection against contamination: DONE Overall quality: LOW
Participants	Head nurses in 10 community health centres Country: Malawi Proportion of eligible providers who participated: NOT CLEAR Setting of care: Community‐based care Academic/Teaching setting: NON‐TEACHING Type of targeted behaviour: GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF A PROBLEM (drug counseling to parents with sick children) Complexity of targeted behaviour: LOW
Interventions	1. CME: 11‐day training course with nationally adapted guidelines + one supervisory visit from course instructors 2. No intervention control
Outcomes	Professional practice: 10‐point composite scale measuring the quality of drug counselling Patient: none Seriousness of outcome: MODERATE
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	B ‐ Unclear