White 1985.

Methods	Cluster RCT Follow up: providers: DONE patients: NOT CLEAR Blinded assessment: DONE Baseline: DONE Reliable outcomes: NOT DONE Protection against contamination: DONE Overall quality: MODERATE
Participants	103 family doctors or general internists in 12 communities caring for in‐patients post‐myocardial infarction Country: USA Proportion of eligible providers who participated: 71% Family practitioners Academic/Teaching setting: NOT CLEAR Type of targeted behaviour: GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF A PROBLEM (care for acute myocardial infarction) Complexity of targeted behaviour: MEDIUM
Interventions	1. CME: 3.5‐hr educational session: 2 hrs with traditional methods and 1.5 h of discussions and case examples 2. Control: no intervention control
Outcomes	Professional practice: overall measures of desired patient care Patient: none Seriousness of outcome: HIGH
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	B ‐ Unclear