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Table 6 Risk of bias assessment for single arm and cluster randomized trials (Cochrane Collaboration’s tool)

From: Community-based care models for arterial hypertension management in non-pregnant adults in sub-Saharan Africa: a literature scoping review and framework for designing chronic services

Author and publication year

Bias arising from the randomization process

Bias arising from the timing of identification and recruitment of individual participants in relation to timing of randomization

Bias due to deviations from intended interventions

Bias due to missing outcome data

Bias in measurement of the outcome

Bias in selection of the reported result

Overall bias

Bolarinwa et al. 2019 [59]

Low risk

-

Low risk

Low risk

Low risk

Low

Low risk

Vedanthan et al. 2021 [56]

Low risk

Some concerns

High risk

Low risk

Low risk

Low risk

Some concerns

  1. *The assessment was conducted using the Revised Cochrane risk-of-bias tool for randomized trials and cluster randomized trials (RoB 2) (https://sites.google.com/site/riskofbiastool/welcome/rob-2-0-tool?authuser=0). Scoring was assigned following the algorithms in guidance documents