Wirtschafter 1986.
Methods | Cluster RCT
Follow up:
providers: NOT CLEAR
patients: NOT CLEAR
Blinded assessment: NOT CLEAR
Baseline: NOT DONE
Reliable outcomes: NOT DONE
Protection against contamination: DONE Overall quality: LOW |
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Participants | Estimated 1097 doctors (family practitioners + paediatricians) and nurses in 40 community hospitals caring for newborns in neonatal intensive care units Country: USA Proportion of eligible providers who participated: NOT CLEAR Hospital Academic/Teaching setting: NON‐TEACHING Type of targeted behaviour: GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF A PROBLEM (respiratory distress in neonatals) Complexity of targeted behaviour: HIGH | |
Interventions | 1. CME: 1.5 hrs x 2 given 6‐8 months apart: mediated lecture/case study presentation + monthly newsletter 2. 1.5 hrs x 2 given 6‐8 months apart: mediated lecture/case study presentation + protocol for treatment of respiratory distress + newsletter 3. Control: newsletter | |
Outcomes | Professional practice: combined process score Patient: neonatal mortality Seriousness of outcome: HIGH | |
Notes | ||
Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Unclear risk | B ‐ Unclear |