Table 3

Risk of bias in the included randomised controlled trial

Study nameSequence generationAllocation concealmentBlinding (participants, data collectors, outcome adjudicators)Completeness of outcome dataCompleteness of outcome reporting
Freemantle et al,13 2000Low risk:
‘Practices were randomised to intervention or control using computer generated random numbers in a stratified scheme’
Unclear risk
Not reported
Unclear risk
Not reported
Low risk
No missing data reported
Low risk
No evidence of selective outcome reporting