Systematic review of safety checklists for use by medical care teams in acute hospital settings - limited evidence of effectiveness

Table 2 Summary of quality assessment of studies.

Setting	Study	Quality assessment*
		No conflict of interest	Appropriate study design	Appropriate participant selection	Appropriate allocation concealment and blinding	Appropriate data collection methods used	Outcome attributable to intervention	Appropriate analysis
ICU	Agarwal et al 2008 [3]	?	+	+	?	+	+	+
	Berenholtz et al 2004 [4]	++	+	?	-	+	+	+
	Byrnes et al 2009 [5]	++	+	?	?	+	++	?
	Narasimhan et al 2006 [6]	?	+	?	?	+	+	?
	Pronovost et al 2003 [7]	?	+	?	?	+	+	?
ED	Gokula et al 2007 [8]	?	+	+	?	+	+	+
	Romagnuolo et al 2005 [9]	?	+	++	?	+	+	++
Surgery	Haynes et al 2009 [10]	++	+	+	-	+	+	+
Acute care	Weingarten Jr et al 2004 [11]	?	+	+	?	+	?	?

*Quality assessment: ++ = criterion met; + = criterion partially met; - = criterion not met; ? = unclear from the information provided.

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