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Thomas 1993 (Continued)<br />

Patient selection criteria details: all over 70s<br />

Interventions Team members: senior <strong>geriatric</strong>ian, <strong>geriatric</strong> nurse specialist, social worker, dietician,<br />

pharmacist, physiotherapist<br />

Team organisation: comprehensive <strong>assessment</strong>, and recommendations made in patients’<br />

charts as well as follow up visits versus <strong>assessment</strong> with no recommendations in the<br />

control group<br />

Outcomes Outcomes: death, dependence<br />

Trial conclusions: short-term reductions in mortality which still remain at one year.<br />

Additional trends <strong>to</strong> better functional status and reduced readmission<br />

Notes<br />

Risk of bias<br />

Bias Authors’ judgement Support <strong>for</strong> judgement<br />

Random sequence generation (selection<br />

bias)<br />

Low risk Computer-generated random numbers<br />

Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not described<br />

Blinding (per<strong>for</strong>mance bias and detection<br />

bias)<br />

All outcomes<br />

Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)<br />

All outcomes<br />

High risk No blinding of staff or outcome <strong>assessment</strong><br />

Unclear risk Analysis as per pro<strong>to</strong>col<br />

Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk No a priori documentation could be found<br />

<strong>to</strong> judge this item<br />

Other bias Low risk No apparent attrition bias. No obvious per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />

bias.<br />

Baseline outcome measurements similar Low risk Baseline measurements are the same<br />

Baseline characteristics similar Low risk Baseline characteristics are similar<br />

Study protected against contamination High risk Mobile team in different wards. Contamination<br />

(e.g. of routine ward staff practices)<br />

possible.<br />

<strong>Comprehensive</strong> <strong>geriatric</strong> <strong>assessment</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>older</strong> <strong>adults</strong> <strong>admitted</strong> <strong>to</strong> hospital (Review)<br />

Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<br />

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