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

Kiessling 2002.

Methods Cluster RCT 
 Follow up: 
 providers: DONE 
 patients: DONE 
 Blinded assessment: DONE 
 Baseline: DONE 
 Reliable outcomes: DONE 
 Protection against contamination: DONE
Overall quality: HIGH
Participants 54 general practitioners and 88 of their patients with coronary artery disease 
 Country: Sweden 
 Proportion of eligible providers who participated: NOT CLEAR 
 General practice 
 Academic/Teaching setting: NON‐TEACHING 
 Type of targeted behaviour: PREVENTIVE CARE (coronary artery disease) 
 Complexity of targeted behaviour: LOW
Interventions 1. CME: guidelines distributed and presented in a lecture + 1 hr x 3 (4) of case‐based education 
 2. Guidelines distributed and presented in a lecture
Outcomes Professional practice: none (only self‐reported) 
 Patient: low density lipoprotein cholesterol (mmol/l) 
 Seriousness of outcome: MODERATE
Notes  
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Low risk A ‐ Adequate