Woodcock 1999.

Methods	Cluster RCT Follow up: providers: NOT CLEAR patients: NOT DONE Blinded assessment: DONE Baseline: NOT DONE Reliable outcomes: NOT CLEAR Protection against contamination: DONE Overall quality: LOW
Participants	107 general practitioners and nurses in 41 practices Country: UK Proportion of eligible providers who participated: NOT CLEAR General practice Academic/Teaching setting: NON‐TEACHING Type of targeted behaviour: GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF A PROBLEM (patient centred diabetes care) Complexity of targeted behaviour: LOW
Interventions	1. CME: general practitioners: 0.5‐day group training; nurses: 1.5 days 2. Control: no intervention control
Outcomes	Professional practice: patients' recognition of a patient booklet, recognition of an insert to the booklet, patients' reports of nurse consulting behaviour Patient: none Seriousness of outcome: MODERATE
Notes	No baseline data
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Low risk	A ‐ Adequate