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. 2021 Oct 12;2021(10):CD011589. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011589.pub2

Richardson 2019.

Study characteristics
Methods Randomised trial.
Participants 300 paediatric primary care patients.
Interventions Electronic screening and clinician feedback versus. usual care. 
 
Intervention features
Multiple simple feedback (one PROM at multiple times)
PROM(s) used as intervention: HEADSS (home, education, activities, depression, sexual activity, safety, and substance use) framework
Constructs measured: Functioning, Other (emotional wellbeing)
Instrument categories/domains: Generic
 
Administration features
Where PROMs administered: Clinical setting (e.g. waiting room, office, etc) 
How administered: Self‐administered
Format of PROMs questionnaire(s): Electronic
 
Feedback features
Format of PROMs feedback: Electronic
How often information fed back: On day 1 and 3 months
Who information fed back to: Clinicians
Information fed back: Scores
 
Outcomes Main outcome: self‐report of counselling and risk behaviours
Notes Study was funded by Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services. The study was conducted between 13th March 2015 and 8th August 2016. Conflicts were reported as: Drs Richardson and McCarty reported receiving grants from Health Resources and Services Administration Maternal Child Health Bureau during the conduct of the study. Drs Richardson and McCarty reported having a license agreement with Tickit Health Inc as inventors of the Check Yourself Tool whereby they will receive royalties from the future sale of the tool to other health care companies; Seattle Children’s Hospital has a management plan in place to oversee their interests with Tickit Health Inc. No other disclosures were reported.
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Computer‐generated list. 
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not reported. 
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)
All outcomes High risk Unblinded by nature of intervention. 
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
All outcomes Unclear risk Not reported. 
Baseline outcome measurements similar Low risk Baseline outcome measurements the same.
Baseline characteristics similar Low risk Baseline characteristics similar.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes Low risk Intention‐t0‐treat analysis.
Was study protected against contamination High risk Non‐cluster design. 
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk Reporting as per protocol.