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Table 2 Risk of bias

From: The evidence for services to avoid or delay residential aged care admission: a systematic review

Author, year

Sequence generation

Allocation concealment

Blinding of participants and personnel

Blinding of outcome assessors

Incomplete outcome data

Selective outcome reporting

Beland 2006

L

?

?

L

L

?

Byles 2004

L

?

H

L

L

?

Caplan 2004

L

H

?

H

L

?

Dalby 2000

L

L

L

L

L

?

Eloniemi-Sulkava 2001

L

L

?

L

L

?

Eloniemi-Sulkava 2009

L

L

?

?

L

?

Gill 2002

L

?

?

L

L

?

Hammar 2007

L

?

?

H

L

?

Hebert 2001

L

?

L

L

L

?

Holland 2005

L

L

H

?

L

?

Kono 2004

L

?

L

L

L

?

Kono 2012

L

?

?

?

L

?

Lenaghan 2007

?

?

?

?

L

?

Luukinen 2007

L

?

?

L

L

?

Mahoney 2007

L

L

?

L

L

?

Markle-Reid 2013

L

?

?

?

?

?

Nakanishi 2018

L

L

H

H

L

?

Newbury 2001

L

L

H

?

L

L

Pardessus 2002

L

?

?

?

L

?

Phung 2013

?

?

?

L

L

?

Rockwood 2000

?

?

H

L

?

?

Samus 2014

L

?

H

L

L

?

Scott 2004

L

?

?

?

L

?

Senior 2014

?

L

H

L

L

?

Shapiro 2002

L

?

H

H

L

?

Sommers 2000

L

?

H

?

H

?

Spice 2009

L

?

?

?

L

?

Stuck 2000

L

L

?

L

L

?

Spoorenberg 2018

L

?

H

L

L

?

Thomas 2007

L

?

H

H

L

L

van Hout 2010

L

?

H

L

L

?

Vass 2005

L

?

H

H

L

?

  1. Legend: H High risk, L Low risk? Unclear risk